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Conditions Claims Viable in WA PRP
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2001
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2001, page 29
A Washington state appeals court held that conditions of confinement claims are cognizable under the state's Personal Restraint Petition (PRP) system. In doing so, the court upheld a ban on a sex offender's correspondence with his 11-year-old niece.
Filed under:
Sex Offenders (Discrimination),
Disciplinary Hearings,
Disciplinary Litigation,
Habeas Corpus,
Mail Regulations.
Location:
Washington.
Robert Arseneau was convicted of first-degree incest for raping his daughter for ...
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