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OK State Courts Can Hear Prison Suits
Loaded on May 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
May, 1994, page 3
Dennis Waldon is an Oklahoma state prisoner. He was infracted and punished in a prison disciplinary hearing resulting in the loss of one hundred days of good time credits. Waldon filed a writ of habeas corpus and/or mandamus in the Alfalfa County district court claiming that prison officials had not ...
Filed under:
Disciplinary Hearings,
Disciplinary Litigation,
Mandamus,
Good Time,
Habeas Corpus.
Location:
Oklahoma.
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