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Disciplinary Segregation Can Create Liberty Interest
Loaded on Sept. 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
September, 1997, page 13
In two separate rulings, the court of appeals for the second circuit held that in Sandin v. Connor, 115 S.Ct. 2293 (1993) [PLN, Aug. 1995] the supreme court did not create a blanket rule that disciplinary segregation alone, without the loss of good time, could never implicate a liberty interest. ...
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Disciplinary Hearings,
Disciplinary Litigation,
Liberty Interests,
Informants (Disciplinary Hearings),
Disciplinary Appeals.
Location:
New York.
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