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Lengthy Ad Seg Is Atypical and Significant Hardship
Loaded on March 15, 1999
published in Prison Legal News
March, 1999, page 18
Lengthy Ad Seg is Atypical and Significant Hardship Afederal court in New York has held that uninterrupted confinement in administrative segregation (ad seg) for more than four years is an atypical and significant hardship, implying a liberty interest protected by the Due Process Clause. It also held that, by regulations, ...
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