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| Court rules in favor of prison inmate |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 07/19/2004 |
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The N.M. Supreme Court has ruled that the Department of Corrections wrongly denied an inmate visits from his wife without providing due process procedures. The court says Phillip Cordova wasn't given any notice or provided a hearing by the department before it indefinitely suspended visits from his wife. The court ruled against other claims by Cordova. He had argued that the department wrongly sent him to a super-maximum-security prison in Virginia in 1999 in retaliation for bringing grievances as a jail house lawyer and not cooperating with an investigation into prison gangs. Cordova has since been transferred by the department to a prison in Oklahoma. His lawyer -- Brian Pori -- says the court's ruling should mean that spousal visits would be restored for Cordova if he's returned to a New Mexico prison. |
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