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Kansas Prisoners Entitled to Notice of Prison Rules
Loaded on Sept. 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
September, 1998, page 19
The Kansas state court of appeals held that Kansas prisoners have a due process liberty interest in their good time credits and are entitled to notice of prison rules before they can be punished for violating them. Xuan Hiep Le is a Kansas state prisoner. While in segregation he was …
Filed under:
Disciplinary Hearings,
Liberty Interests,
Notice of Rules,
Legality of Rules.
Location:
Kansas.
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