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Superintendent v. Hill

Index Superintendent v. Hill

Superintendent v. Hill,, was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that due process required that prison disciplinary decisions to revoke good-time credits must be supported by "some evidence.". [1]

11 relations: Due process, Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Good conduct time, Massachusetts Correctional Institution – Cedar Junction, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Prison, Sandra Day O'Connor, Solitary confinement, Supreme Court of the United States, Walpole, Massachusetts, Wolff v. McDonnell.

Due process

Due process is the legal requirement that the state must respect all legal rights that are owed to a person.

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Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.

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Good conduct time

Good conduct time, good time credit, or time off for good behavior is a sentence reduction given to prisoners who maintain good behavior while imprisoned.

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Massachusetts Correctional Institution – Cedar Junction

The Massachusetts Correctional Institution—Cedar Junction (MCI-Cedar Junction), formerly known as MCI-Walpole, is a maximum security prison with an average daily population of approximately 800 adult male inmates under the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Department of Correction.

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Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) is the highest court in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

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Prison

A prison, also known as a correctional facility, jail, gaol (dated, British English), penitentiary (American English), detention center (American English), or remand center is a facility in which inmates are forcibly confined and denied a variety of freedoms under the authority of the state.

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Sandra Day O'Connor

Sandra Day O'Connor (born March 26, 1930) is a retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, having served from her appointment in 1981 by Ronald Reagan until 2006.

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Solitary confinement

Solitary confinement is a form of imprisonment in which an inmate is isolated from any human contact, often with the exception of members of prison staff, for 22–24 hours a day, with a sentence ranging from days to decades.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.

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Walpole, Massachusetts

Walpole is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States and also encompasses the entirely distinct entity of Walpole (CDP), with its much smaller area of 2.9 square miles and smaller population of 5,198 at the 2010 census.

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Wolff v. McDonnell

Wolff v. McDonnell,, was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that prisoners retained some due process rights when incarcerated.

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472 U.S. 445, Superintendent v Hill, Superintendent, Mass. Correctional Institute at Walpole v. Hill, Superintendent, Mass. Correctional Institution at Walpole v Hill, Superintendent, Mass. Correctional Institution at Walpole v. Hill.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superintendent_v._Hill

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