United States v. Reggie Neon Brown

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Reggie Brown participated in a prison riot while serving a 15-year sentence for armed robbery. Brown was charged in a prison disciplinary proceeding with assault on a corrections officer, riot, attempted murder, and destruction of government property. Brown was found to have committed the assault, but the remaining allegations were dismissed. Prison authorities disallowed forty-one days of good time credit Brown could have earned on the anniversary of his imprisonment and ordered Brown transferred to a higher security institution. Brown was subsequently indicted for assaulting a federal…