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Kansas Ad Seg Hearing Required
Loaded on Aug. 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
August, 1997, page 11
The supreme court of Kansas held that a prisoner was entitled to a hearing to determine if three years in administrative segregation (ad seg) has become a prohibited punishment. Rodney Murphy, a Kansas state prisoner, was placed in ad seg in 1993 for investigation after a prison rebellion in which …
Filed under:
Disciplinary Hearings,
Liberty Interests,
Counsel,
Limitations,
Ad-Seg Hearings.
Location:
Kansas.
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