Ernest Eugene Harper v. Leroy L. Young Attorney General of Oklahoma

McKAY, Circuit Judge.

Mr. Ernest Harper, presently an inmate in the Oklahoma prison system, challenges the constitutionality of the process by which he was terminated from the Oklahoma Pre-pa-role Conditional Supervision Program (“the Program”) — a penal status similar to, although more restrictive than, parole that allows convicts to live and work in society. The parties do not dispute that Mr. Harper received verbal notice of his renewed incarceration somewhat less than five hours before he was to turn himself in to authorities and that he was never granted any sort of hearing at which he…