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Conditions Habeas Requires Administrative Exhaustion
Loaded on Jan. 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
January, 1994, page 4
Raleigh Irby is a prisoner at the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in Chicago. He petitioned the district court for release under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (the habeas corpus statute) because he was not receiving adequate medical treatment for severe congenital disk disease.
Filed under:
Medical,
Skeletal Disorder,
Administrative Exhaustion,
Habeas Corpus.
Location:
Illinois.
The district court held that Irby's petition …
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