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Wright Dismissed on Remand
Loaded on Sept. 15, 1999
published in Prison Legal News
September, 1999, page 20
In the July, 1998, issue of PLN we reported Wright v. Coughlin, 132 F.3d 133 (2nd Cir. 1998). The case involves a New York state prisoner who spent 288 days in segregation after being infracted for participating in a prison rebellion. A state court reversed the disciplinary sanctions, finding that ...
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