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The Fundamental Right of Self-Defense in Prison

Loaded on Nov. 15, 1996 by Robert F Nelson published in Prison Legal News November, 1996, page 1
Filed under: Disciplinary Hearings, Legality of Rules, Failure to Protect (General), Habeas Corpus. Location: United States of America.
by Robert F. Nelson

[Editor's Note: In 1994 the court of appeals for the seventh circuit decided Rowe v. DeBruyn, 17 F.3d 1047 (7th Cir. 1994) which held that an Indiana state prisoner had no constitutional right to self-defense in prison. The case arose after the plaintiff was infracted and ...

 

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