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Fifth Circuit Holds Louisiana Prisoner May Sue Over Failure to Credit Good Time

On January 1, 2016, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a Louisiana prisoner may sue prison officials for failing to credit him with good conduct time which would have shortened his sentence.

State prisoner Kenneth Owens was sentenced to thirty years at hard labor on January 4, 1989. ...

 

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