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Seg Conditions Analyzed for Sandin Purposes
Loaded on July 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1998, page 21
Building on prior recent decisions, the court of appeals for the second circuit held that district courts must analyze segregation conditions when determining whether prisoner plaintiffs have a federal due process liberty interest in remaining free from such confinement. Thomas Wright, a New York state prisoner, was infracted for rioting …
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