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Duration of Confinement in Segregation Affects Due Process Inquiry
Loaded on Oct. 15, 2009
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2009, page 44
On May 12, 2008, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that the length of a prisoner’s confinement in administrative segregation (ad seg) affects whether there has been a due process violation.
Filed under:
Liberty Interests,
Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement,
Ad-Seg Hearings.
Location:
Michigan.
Carey Harden-Bey, a Michigan prisoner at the Alger Maximum Correctional Facility, was placed in ad ...
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