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New York Work Release Creates Liberty Interest
Loaded on Feb. 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
February, 1997, page 19
A federal district court in New York held that state law creates a due process liberty interest which requires a hearing before prisoners can be removed from work release. The court also held that res judicata did not bar a § 1983 suit in federal court where the same issue ...
Filed under:
Work Release,
Disciplinary Hearings,
Liberty Interests,
Res Judicata.
Location:
New York.
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