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Evidence Must Support Disciplinary Charge by Lloyd Brown is a District of Columbia prisoner held at the Lorton prison in Virginia. Brown was infracted for throwing a fermented solution of milk, feces and urine in a guard's face. He was charged with assault and destruction of property, and three other …
Article • October 15, 1993 • from PLN October, 1993
Due Process Required Before Hole Time by Acounty jail prisoner in Lubbock, Texas, filed a civil rights complaint pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against his captors. He alleged jailers violated his right to due process by placing him in lockdown without a hearing. The prisoner's crime was to ignore …
Article • August 15, 1993 • from PLN August, 1993
Ad-Seg WACs Do Not Create Liberty Interest by PLN recently reported Farr v. Blodgett, [PLN, Vol. 4, No. 6] in which the district court for the Eastern District of Washington held that the Washington Administrative Code (WAC) created a due process liberty interest for Washington state prisoners to remain out …
Disciplinary Isolation Triggers Due Process by Prisoners suffered a violation of their due process rights when they were ordered into disciplinary isolation with out the notice and hearing procedures outlines in Wolff v. McDonnell, 418 U.S. 539 (1974), the Massachusetts Supreme Court held. The less demanding procedures prescribed in Hewitt …
Ad Seg Right to Eyeglasses and Toilet Paper by Vernon Williams is a California state prisoner in administrative segregation (ad seg) at San Quentin. He filed suit challenging numerous conditions of his confinement. The court granted Williams leave to proceed In Forma Pauperis. This is not a ruling on the …
WA Ad Seg Rules Create Liberty Interest by Tillman Farr was a prisoner at the Washington State Penitentiary (WSP) at Walla Walla. Prison officials placed Farr in Administrative Segregation (ad seg) based on information from confidential informants which claimed Farr and others were going to assault a guard. Based on …
Article • June 15, 1993 • from PLN June, 1993
No Liberty Interest in BOP Ad Seg Rules by Howard Awalt is a federal prisoner. He was placed in administrative segregation (ad seg) pursuant to 28 C.F.R. § 541.22 (a)(8) after prison officials received an anonymous note stating his life was in danger. He filed a Bivens action against prison …
Prison Officials Liable for Haircuts by Four prisoners at the Iowa State Penitentiary (ISP) with shag haircuts (where the hair is long in back and short in the front and on the sides) were ordered to get haircuts by prison officials. Two of the prisoners agreed to the haircuts, the …
Washington Feces Watch and Visiting Policy Create Liberty Interest by Rogaciano Mendoza was a prisoner at the Washington State Penitentiary (WSP) at Walla Walla in 1989 when prison officials discovered a broken balloon containing a white substance in the visiting room bathroom being used by Mendozas 6 children. Mendoza was …
Article • December 15, 1991 • from PLN December, 1991
No Liberty Interest in Prison Jobs by No Liberty Interest In Prison Jobs The 7th circuit in an en bane ruling held that neither the due process clause nor Illinois statutes create a protected liberty interest in a prisoner holding one prison job over another. Phillip Wallace is an Illinois …
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