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BOP Ad Seg Rules Create Liberty Interest
Loaded on Sept. 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
September, 1994, page 8
Jerome Crowder is a paraplegic federal prisoner confined to a wheelchair. He filed suit against officials of the Metropolitan Corrections Center (MCC) in Chicago claiming he was placed in administrative segregation without a hearing and as a result of this he was denied proper medical care. The defendants filed a …
Filed under:
Disabled Prisoners,
Qualified Immunity,
Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement,
Ad-Seg Hearings.
Location:
Illinois.
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