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Tenth Circuit: Terrorism Prisoners Lack Liberty Interest in Transfer to ADX
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2013
by Derek Gilna
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2013, page 8
Omar Rezaq, Mohammed Saleh, El-Sayyid Nosair and Ibrahim Elgabrowny, convicted of terrorism-related offenses and confined at the federal supermax ADX facility in Florence, Colorado, filed suit contending they had a liberty interest in “avoiding transfer without due process to the high-security prison.” The district court denied relief, which was affirmed ...
Filed under:
Classification,
Out of State Transfers,
Transfers,
Liberty Interests,
Terrorism,
Ad-Seg Hearings.
Locations:
Colorado,
Illinois,
Indiana.
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