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Sandin Limits Property Interests
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2000, page 13
The court of appeals for the Tenth circuit held that Sandin v. Connor, 515 U.S. 472,115 S.Ct. 2293 (1995) applies to property interests asserted by prisoners, as well as liberty interests. In 1997 a guard at the Wyoming State Penitentiary (WSP) was killed by prisoners during an escape attempt. Prison ...
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