Restoration of "Good Time" for New York State Prisoners

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January 25, 1972

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Press Releases, Volume 6. Restoration of "Good Time" for New York State Prisoners, 1972. e81f3bbf-ba92-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/76506362-e1fb-4edf-9ebb-e1c2ffd72611/restoration-of-good-time-for-new-york-state-prisoners. Accessed November 23, 2025.

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    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

JANUARY 25, 1972 

NEW YORK, N.Y. --7~ The Second Circuit court of Appeals 

today upheld the decisions of three United States District 

courts, which had restored to New york State prisoners their 

"good time” which had been unconstitutionally
 withheld by prison 

officials. The prisoners, Eugene Rodriguez, Michael Katzoff, and 

John Kritsky had been incarcerated at Auburn and Clinton prisons 

respectively, in upstate New York, and were all punished by 

officials therein, in a manner and for reasons, that three 

federal trial judges found had violated the Fourteenth Amendment's 

guarantee -— that no person shall be deprived of his liberty 

without due process of law. The NAACP Legal Defense Fund repre- 

sented Kritsky and appeared as a "friend of the court" in Rodriguez ' 

case. Katzoff was represented by prof. Herman Schwartz of the 

University of Buffalo Law School. 

NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc. | 40 Columbus Circle | New York, N.Y. 10019 | (212) 586-8397 

on. Francis E. Rivers - President 

Jack Greenberg - Director-Counsel a. 
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