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Segregation Requires Less Due Process
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1998, page 25
The court of appeals for the Seventh circuit held that prisoners facing only the prospect of disciplinary segregation are entitled to less due process than when the sanction imposed involves the loss of good time credits. The court also questioned, but did not decide, whether such disciplinary cases can be ...
Filed under:
Disciplinary Hearings,
Liberty Interests,
Witnesses (Disciplinary Hearings),
Sanctions (Disciplinary Hearings),
Standard of Proof,
Habeas Corpus.
Location:
Indiana.
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