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Seventh Circuit Upholds Disciplinary Sanction Revoking Over 15 Years of Indiana Prisoner’s Good Time
Loaded on Feb. 1, 2024
by Douglas Ankney
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2024, page 36
Filed under:
Disciplinary Hearings,
Disciplinary Litigation,
Double jeopardy (Hearings),
Liberty Interests,
Good Time,
Assaults on Staff.
Location:
Indiana.
by Douglas Ankney
When Indiana state prisoner Tony Love participated in a brawl, he was apparently unaware of the severity of the consequences he faced. But the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit made sure he knew, ruling on July 7, 2023, that the loss of more than ...
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