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New York Mail Rule Disciplinary Conviction Reversed
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2008
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2008, page 48
The Appellate Division, Fourth Department, of the New York Supreme Court has ordered the removal from a prisoner’s institutional record of a misbehavior report for failing to comply with correspondence rules.
Filed under:
Disciplinary Litigation,
Notice of Rules,
Escapes,
Mail,
Mail Regulations.
Location:
New York.
Curtis Davis, a prisoner at New York’s Attica prison, commenced an action pursuant to CPLR Article 78 to annul ...
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