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Hawaii Prisoners Challenge 'Sex Offender' Label
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1998, page 18
Hawaii prisoners labeled as "sex offenders" and ordered to participate in a sex offender treatment program as a pre-condition of parole eligibility have a protected liberty interest in receiving minimal due process before being thus labeled.
Filed under:
Sex Offenders (Discrimination),
Disciplinary Litigation,
Injunctions,
Sentencing,
Ex Post Facto,
Habeas Corpus,
Qualified Immunity,
Sex Offender Treatment.
Location:
Hawaii.
In 1992, Hawaii enacted a law authorizing the creation of a prison sex offender ...
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