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Sandin Inapplicable to Detainee Disciplinary Claims

The court of appeals for the ninth circuit held that a jail policy prohibiting detainees from calling live witnesses to testify at disciplinary hearings, under any circumstances, was unconstitutional. The court held that prison and jail rules confer no legal rights to prisoners and that counties are not liable for ...

 

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