Security and the law: Providing Security for a Fire Alarm is 'Good Business'
In a recent case in Michigan, a petitioner who was an inmate at the Federal Prison, filed an appeal after the United States District Court dismissed his petition. The inmate lost 27 days of good time credits, was placed in disciplinary segregation and conditionally lost 180 days of commissary privileges after he was found guilty by a disciplinary hearing officer of tampering with the fire alarm in the Federal Medical Center where he was imprisoned.
The petitioner, after exhausting his administrative remedies, petitioned for habeas corpus relief, asserting that he was innocent and that there was insufficient evidence to support the hearing officer’s findings.