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Pennsylvania Prisoner Given Belt, Then Punished for Having It

by David M. Reutter

The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania found it lacked jurisdiction in a case brought by a prisoner who was issued a belt and then later punished for possessing it. Dissenting judges called the disciplinary action taken by prison officials “Kafkaesque.”

While housed at SCI-Fayette, Albert Dantzler was ...

 

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