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Failure to Notify Prisoner of Hearing Violates Procedural Rights
Loaded on June 15, 2001
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2001, page 15
The Supreme Court of Wisconsin found that when prison officials ignore their own rules requiring a prisoner to be notified of the date, time, and location of disciplinary proceedings against him, the prisoner's fundamental rights are violated and the disciplinary proceedings must be invalidated.
Filed under:
Disciplinary Hearings,
Legality of Rules,
Witnesses (Disciplinary Hearings),
Notice of Hearing.
Location:
Wisconsin.
In February 1997, Ira Lee AndersonEl ...
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