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Denial of Disciplinary Witnesses Upheld
Loaded on Sept. 15, 1996
published in Prison Legal News
September, 1996, page 3
The court of appeals for the first circuit vacated and remanded a Massachusetts district court ruling that had held that a prison policy denying witnesses from the prison's general population to segregated prisoners' disciplinary hearings was unconstitutional. Brendan McGuinness is a Massachusetts state prisoner who was infracted for allegedly getting …
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