The following excerpt is from Patterson v. Harrington, CASE No. 1:12-cv-00440-MJS (PC) (E.D. Cal. 2012):
The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects prisoners from being deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. Wolff v. McDonnell, 418 U.S. 539, 556 (1974).
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