BALAGUN v. NEW JERSEY DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS


824 A.2d 1109 (2003)

361 N.J. Super. 199

Tafawa BALAGUN, Petitioner-Appellant, v. NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Respondent-Respondent.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided June 13, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Appellant, Tafawa Balagun, submitted a pro se brief.

Peter C. Harvey, Acting Attorney General, attorney for respondent (Patrick DeAlmeida, Deputy Attorney General, of counsel; Jeffrey K. Gladden, Deputy Attorney General, on the brief).

Before Judges CUFF, LEFELT and WINKELSTEIN.


The opinion of the court was delivered by LEFELT, J.A.D.

Tafawa Balagun, an inmate at South Woods State Prison, appeals from a final decision of the Department of Corrections imposing disciplinary sanctions for possessing materials relating to a security threat group, the Bloods gang, in violation of N.J.A.C. 10A:4-4.1(a). Balagun argues that he is neither a member of any gang nor sympathetic to the Bloods and has been previously sanctioned for possessing some...

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