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Over Detention Claim Must Show Knowledge or Failure to Act on Problem

A Pennsylvania federal district court held a prisoner failed to show prison officials were deliberately indifferent to his claims that he was over-detained. The SCI Graterford prisoner alleged prison officials violated his constitutional rights by detaining him four months and seventeen days past his maximum sentence date. The court stated …

 

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