BECKETT v. BUREAU OF CORRECTIONS

No. 113 Miscellaneous Docket No. 3.

64 Pa.Commw. 157 (1982)

George J. Beckett, Jr., Petitioner v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Bureau of Corrections, Respondent.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

January 19, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George J. Beckett, Jr., petitioner, for himself.

Marc G. Brocher, Deputy Attorney General, with him LeRoy S. Zimmerman, Attorney General, for respondent.

Submitted on briefs, December 4, 1981, to President Judge CRUMLISH and Judges MENCER, ROGERS, BLATT, WILLIAMS, JR., CRAIG, MacPHAIL and PALLADINO.


OPINION BY JUDGE MacPHAIL, January 19, 1982:

Mr. Beckett (Petitioner), pro se, has filed a Petition for Review (Petition) alleging that certain of his constitutional rights were violated when his sentence was recomputed administratively without a prior hearing by the addition of "over 6 months" to the minimum and maximum terms of his sentence because of his escape while on the work release program of the State Correctional Institution at Graterford. The Bureau of...

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