Crook v. Oregon State Penitentiary

Petitioner, an inmate of the Oregon State Penitentiary, appeals a disciplinary order of the superintendent. The superintendent, after a disciplinary committee hearing, found that petitioner had committed an assault on a prison vocational instructor in violation of OAR 291-105-015(4).

Petitioner denied that he had committed the assault. He asserts that the evidence was insufficient, because the hearings officer did not obtain either the identities, or the verbatim statements, of the informants and failed to substantiate their reliability. OAR 291-105-041(5) provides:

“(5) The evidence considered…