×
You've used up your 3 free articles for this month. Subscribe today.
New Jersey DOC Required to Follow Own Rules
Loaded on March 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
March, 1998, page 26
The appellate division of the superior court of New jersey held that a prisoner was entitled to reversal of a disciplinary sanction because the prison hearing officer disobeyed a court ordered prison rule requiring the prisoner to sign a form documenting what procedures take place at disciplinary hearings.
Filed under:
Disciplinary Hearings,
Disciplinary Litigation,
Witnesses (Disciplinary Hearings),
Notice of Hearing,
Written Findings.
Location:
New Jersey.
Melvin Johnson ...
Full article and associated cases available to subscribers.
As a digital subscriber to Prison Legal News, you can access full text and downloads for this and other premium content.
Already a subscriber? Login
More from this issue:
- Kafka in the Desert: Palestinian Detainees Struggle
- Israeli Soldier Jailed for Refusing to Guard Palestinian Detainees
- Tales from the Washington IMU Crypt, by M L
- From the Editor, by Paul Wright
- Reaching the Breaking Point, by M L
- Fingers in the PIE, by D.H.
- BJS Reports on Sentencing and Imprisonment
- Doing Life: Reflections of Men and Women Serving Life Sentences. Portraits and Interviews, by Dan Pens
- Peruvian Lawyers Arrested
- Pro Se Tips and Tactics, by John Midgley
- California Irradiates Prison Visitors
- WSP Mail Rules Upheld
- Washington Porn Ban Challenged
- BOP Porn Ban Held Unconstitutional
- Struggle at Folsom, by Willie Wisely
- Spanish Speaking Prisoners Entitled to Interpreters
- Court Questions PLRA IFP Provisions
- Attorney Fee Award in Smoking Suit Affirmed
- Arizona Court Fee Law Upheld
- AZ Jail's Discriminatory Treatment of Muslims Requires Trial
- Slavery in South Carolina, by Dan Pens
- Ohio Death Row Uprising
- West Virginia Jailers Sentenced to Prison
- Turning the Screws in California, by Willie Wisely
- Sixth Circuit Discusses Habeas IFP
- Tax Court Required to Assist in Witness Subpoena
- News in Brief
- Ad Seg May Require Due Process
- Snitch Jacketing States 8th Amendment Claim
- Supervisors Liable for Excessive Force
- Ohio Students Rally in DC
- Health Care Contractor Subject to Monell Liability
- Evidence Must Support Disciplinary Ruling
- Survivors Manual
- Zain Fallout Continues
- Failure to Protect Informant Violates 8th Amendment
- Class Action Certification Clarified
- New Jersey DOC Required to Follow Own Rules
- Pelican Bay $600,000 Wrongful Death Settlement
More from these topics:
- New York Prison Officials Found Routinely Violating HALT Act With Overuse of Solitary Confinement, Feb. 15, 2025. Disciplinary Hearings, Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement, Cruel and Unusual Punishment.
- Maine State Prison Warden Replaced As Misconduct Allegations Investigated, Oct. 15, 2024. Guard Misconduct, Disciplinary Hearings.
- Class-Action Lawsuit Challenges Use of Presumptive Drug Tests by Washington DOC, April 1, 2024. Disciplinary Hearings, Disciplinary Litigation, False Charges (Disciplinary Hearings), Evidence, Drug Testing, Estimates/Averages - Use of, Inmate Disciplinary Hearings, Prison Disciplinary Proceedings.
- Colorado Prisoners Disciplined for Not Working Despite Ban on Prison Slavery, April 1, 2024. Prison Labor, Disciplinary Hearings.
- Seventh Circuit Revives Prisoner’s Challenge to Seized $10,000, March 1, 2024. Disciplinary Hearings, Hearing Officers, Seizure of Prisoner Funds.
- Seventh Circuit Upholds Disciplinary Sanction Revoking Over 15 Years of Indiana Prisoner’s Good Time, Feb. 1, 2024. Disciplinary Hearings, Disciplinary Litigation, Double jeopardy (Hearings), Liberty Interests, Good Time, Assaults on Staff.
- Seventh Circuit: Whether Right to Counsel ‘Attaches’ Is Not Dependent on Defendant’s Appearance at Probable Cause Hearing, Sept. 1, 2023. Disciplinary Hearings, Court Appearances, Probable/Proximate Cause, After Request for Counsel.
- Shielded From Public View, Misconduct by Corrections Staff in Illinois Prisons Received Scant Discipline, May 1, 2023. Guard Misconduct, Disciplinary Hearings.
- Iowa Ombudsman Calls Out DOC For Unfair Prisoner Discipline, April 1, 2023. Disciplinary Hearings, Disciplinary Proceedings.
- Second Circuit Announces District Courts Must Provide Habeas Petitioners with Notice and Opportunity To Be Heard Before Dismissing Petition Sua Sponte Based on Stone’s Limitation on Fourth Amendment Claims, Dec. 15, 2022. Notice of Hearing, Habeas Corpus, Fourth Amendment.