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OH S.Ct. Strikes Down Bad Time Law
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2001
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2001, page 19
The Ohio Supreme Court found a state statute, RC 2967.11, which allowed prison officials and the Ohio Parole Board to try: convict, and add time to Ohio prisoners' sentences for criminal infractions occurring during the prisoners' stated prison terms, violated the constitutional doctrine of separation of powers and was unconstitutional. …
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