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Confinement Claim Barred by Res Judicata
Loaded on July 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1995, page 10
The May, 1995, issue of PLN reported on Rooding v. Peters. 864 F. Supp. 732 (ND IL 1994) in which the court found unconstitutional an Illinois DOC policy which required prisoners to serve at least 60 days in an IDOC facility, even if this meant holding them past their release …
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