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Ad Seg States Claim, But Loses on Merits
Loaded on March 15, 2001
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2001, page 15
The court of appeals for the Second circuit held that a district court did not err in vacating a jury's finding that a New York prisoner's 101-day placement in segregation violated due process. In doing so, the court held that New York state rules on segregation placement do create a …
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