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Utah Prisoner’s Administrative Confinement May be Unconstitutional

The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a prisoner’s arbitrary placement in administrative segregation may constitute an “atypical and significant hardship on the prisoner in relation to the ordinary incidents of prison life.”

Utah prisoner Paul Richard Payne filed a U.S.C. § 1983 action that alleged 17 counts ...

 

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