Skip navigation

Search

7 results
Alaska high court: Verbatim record may satisfy written record requirements in disciplinary decisions by R. Bailey by R. Bailey The Alaska Supreme Court held that a prisoner’s federal due process right to receipt of a written statement explaining what evidence and reasoning were relied on in imposing disciplinary action may …
Inquisitorial Telephonic Hearing to Screen Civil Rights Case Deemed Unlawful by In reversing an Illinois federal district court’s dismissal of a civilly committed sex offender’s civil rights action, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals did not mince words when condemning the lower court’s use of a merit review proceeding as …
Article • January 15, 2008
Tenth Circuit Applies Harmless Error in Prison Discipline by The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals held that precluding a prisoner from presenting witness testimony at a prison disciplinary proceeding was harmless error. Kansas prisoner Patrick Grossman was charged with inciting a riot in relation to a December 21, 2002 incident …
Alaska Prisoners' Disciplinary Hearing Rights by In 1975 Alaska's supreme court held that under the state and federal constitutions, Alaskan prisoners enjoy substantial due process rights in prison disciplinary hearings, moreso than prisoners enjoy under the U.S. Constitution alone. The state supreme court held that Alaskan prisoners have the right …
Damages Awarded in NY Urine Test Suit by A federal district court in New York entered an injunction and awarded $3,243.50 in damages, plus attorney fees, to a New York prisoner whose urine specimen lacked a full chain on custody and where no required confirmation test for drug use was …
Wolff Applies to Jail Prisoner Disciplinary Hearings by At 678: "Pre-trial detainees may not be punished without due process of law. . . . A pre-trial detainee is entitled to the procedural protections of Wolff v. McDonnell . . ., before imposition of punishment for a disciplinary infraction." At 679: …