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Habeas Challenging Transfer to Private Prison Dismissed

Loaded on Feb. 15, 2000 published in Prison Legal News February, 2000, page 7
Filed under: Classification, Out of State Transfers, Transfers, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Habeas Corpus. Location: Wisconsin.
The court of appeals for the Seventh circuit held that habeas corpus was not the proper means to challenge a state statute allowing states to confine their prisoners in private prisons in other states. The court also held that a lawsuit challenging prisoners' confinement in private prisons in other states …

 

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