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One-Year NY SHU Atypical and Significant Hardship
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2000, page 22
by Matthew T. Clarke A federal court in New York has held that one year in SHU is an atypical and significant hardship pursuant to Sandin v. Conner, 515 U.S. 472 (1995). The court also held that a prisoner must exhaust state remedies with respect to medical indifference claims, but …
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