Legal Opinion
Young v. Harper
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 18, 1997No. 95-1598PublishedCited by 301 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Thomas
This case presents the narrow question whether a program employed by the State of Oklahoma to reduce the overcrowd ing of its prisons was sufficiently like parole that a person in the program was entitled to the procedural protections set forth in Morrissey v. Brewer, 408 U. S. 471 (1972), before he could be removed from it. We hold that the program, as it appears to have been structured at the time respondent was placed on it, differed from parole in name alone, and affirm the decision of the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
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As pertinent to this case, Oklahoma operated two programs…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Morrissey v. BrewerSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Sandin v. ConnerSupreme Court of the United States · 1995
- Meachum v. FanoSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Missouri v. JenkinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1990
- Ernest Eugene Harper v. Leroy L. Young Attorney General of OklahomaCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1995
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3Cited by301 opinions
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