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Case Remanded for Expungement of Seg Record and Damages Hearing by The Seventh Circuit court of appeals ruled that an Illinois federal prisoner was entitled to relief in the form of expungement of the record of his confinement to segregation where federal prison officials had been ordered to give the …
Confessions Made in Therapy Protected Under 5th Amendment by The court of appeals for the Ninth circuit held that statement made by a prisoner in court ordered therapy are protected by the Fifth amendment's right Against self incrimination. Washington state prisoner Dan Pens was committed to a sexual psychopath program …
Article • May 15, 2007
Judgment Vacated in Aikens v. Lash by The Supreme Court granted certiorari, granted respondents leave to proceed in forma pauperis, and vacated and remanded the Seventh Circuit's decision in Aikens v. Lash, 54 F.2d 55 (7th Cir. 1975), a case in which segregated Indiana state prisoners were given the right …
Article • May 15, 2007
Prisoner Entitled to Lay Advocate in Disciplinary Transfer by The Seventh Circuit court of appeals held that certain minimal due process, requirements are attached to disciplinary transfers of prisoners from the Indiana State Prison. The court held that a prisoner who was the subject of a disciplinary transfer hearing was …
State Law Creates Liberty Interest by The Supreme Court found that a state law gave a Pennsylvania prisoner a liberty interest in remaining in general population which could not be taken without due process. They ruled, however, that the limited actions taken by prison authorities constituted due process. After being …
Article • May 15, 2007
No Visitation Type Restriction for Possession of Marijuana by The New York Supreme Court held that the state's prisoners could not be restricted to non-contact visitation because a disciplinary hearing finding of being in possession of marijuana on the compound. The prisoners had received 180 to 270 days of non-contact …
Article • May 15, 2007
NY Prisoner Allowed to Challenge Disciplinary Sanction That Didn't Lengthen His Sentence Via § 1983 by NY Prisoner Allowed to Challenge Disciplinary Sanction That Didn't Lengthen His Sentence Via § 1983 Donald Griffin, a New York state prisoner, was found guilty of drug use, based on an allegedly flawed urinalysis, …
Article • May 15, 2007
Visitor has Right to Due Process Hearing Before Termination of Visit Privileges by The Oregon Court of Appeals has held that a visitor, who had her privilege to visit her husband permanently revoked after he was found with a balloon full of marijuana in his rectum in a post visit …
Writ Deemed Filed When Handed to Prison Officials by The Florida First District Court of Appeal has quashed a trial court's order dismissing as untimely a prisoner's petition for mandamus challenging a disciplinary hearing conviction. The prisoner's grievance denial was rendered on April 11, 1997, and the mandamus petition bore …
Injunction and Contempt Sanction Issued Against Disciplinary Proceedings Due Process Violations by Injunction and Contempt Sanction Issued Against Disciplinary Proceedings Due Process Violations In the review of a district court's enforcement of an injunction governing disciplinary proceedings at New York's Bedford Hills Correctional Facility (BHCF) for women, the Second Circuit …
Tenth Circuit Reverses Disciplinary Convictions For Pursuing Post-conviction Relief by Tenth Circuit Reverses Disciplinary Convictions For Pursuing Post-conviction Relief The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit reversed two Oklahoma State prisoners disciplinary convictions for violating a state statute. The prisoners were wrongly convicted and punished for a misinterpretation …
Delaware Force Suit Dismissed by The plaintiff resisted when staff tried to place chains and a padlock on his cell door, and force was used against him. He filed one grievance about alleged excessive force and resulting medical problems, and a second grievance about the placement of chains on his …
Defense Verdict in Illinois Brutality, Cold Case Upheld by The plaintiff alleged that officers confined him in a cell with a broken window in subzero weather, used excessive force against him, and made false statements leading to wrongful disciplinary action. A jury found for the defendants. The verdict as to …
Suit Over Virginia DOC Drug Testing Practices Dismissed by The plaintiffs alleged that Virginia accepted money under the Violent Offenders Incarceration and Truth-in-Sentencing Incentive Grants program, which require it to implement a program of controlled substance testing for drug use, which must be consistent with the Attorney General's guidelines. The …
Snitch's Assault Claim Dismissed by The plaintiff was assaulted after he was named as an inmate informant in a disciplinary report. The court refuses to reconsider summary judgment for the hearing officer, since plaintiff shows no facts indicating that the hearing officer was aware of a significant risk before including …
Article • May 15, 2007
AEDPA Applies to Disciplinary Habeas Petitions by A prisoner who has received a lawful disciplinary hearing is not entitled to another hearing on an administrative appeal challenging the conviction and sanction. Under AEDPA, state prisoners' habeas corpus petitions must challenge decisions that are contrary to Supreme Court precedent or involved …
Article • May 15, 2007
Court Rejects Challenge to West Virginia Parole Denial by In West Virginia, the state Supreme Court says parole is a liberty interest. However, the Fourth Circuit says that only "minimal procedure" is required--at most, a statement of reasons for parole denial. (629) The fact that the petitioner's parole hearing was …
Article • May 15, 2007
Cause Shown in Disciplinary Procedural Default by The petitioner sought a writ of habeas corpus based on a disciplinary proceeding in which he lost good time. His state court administrative challenge was submitted timely but was returned because he had failed to include various required documents and had enclosed a …
Written Statements Supports Disciplinary Sanctions by The plaintiff sought a writ of habeas corpus challenging his disciplinary conviction for attempting to traffic in contraband, which resulted in a loss of good time. Indiana prisoners have a liberty interest in earned good time and in maintaining their classification for purposes of …
Administrative Exhaustion Tolls Statute of Limitations by The "prescriptive period" (statute of limitations) is tolled pending administrative exhaustion because the prisoner is barred from bringing the action until exhaustion is finished. Once exhaustion is complete, the prisoner is legally capable of going forward and the statute begins again to run. …
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