×
You've used up your 3 free articles for this month. Subscribe today.
Habeas Challenging Transfer to Private Prison Dismissed
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2000, page 7
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 ...
Filed under:
Classification,
Out of State Transfers,
Transfers,
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
Habeas Corpus.
Location:
Wisconsin.
Full article and associated cases available to subscribers.
As a digital subscriber to Prison Legal News, you can access full text and downloads for this and other premium content.
Already a subscriber? Login
More from this issue:
- California Guards Abuse Young Prisoners, by Willie Wisely
- Georgia Prisoner Wins $60,000 Retaliation Verdict
- From the Editor, by Paul Wright
- Reviews: Legal Research: How to Find & Understand the Law, 7th ed., by Allan Parmelee
- Reviews: Finding the Right Lawyer, by Allan Parmelee
- Prisoners' Guerrilla Handbook to Correspondence Programs in the U.S. and Canada: High School, Vocational, Paralegal and College Courses, by Paul Wright
- Reviews: Voices From Within the Prison Walls, by Rick Card
- Federal Criminal Defendant's Handbook: Negotiating the Long, Lonely Road from Arrest, to Prison, to Freedom, by Paul Wright
- Enemies of the State: A Frank Discussion of Past Political Movements, Victories and Errors and the Current Political Climate for Revolutionary Struggle Within the USA, by Paul Wright
- A Matter of Law, by Mumia Abu-Jamal
- Amended Arizona Statute of Limitations Not Retroactive
- Habeas Challenging Transfer to Private Prison Dismissed
- Abuse of Force at Virginia's Supermax, by Dan Pens
- Tenth Circuit Clarifies Three Strikes
- Wisconsin Release Account Used to Pay Filing Fees
- Warden Purged of Contempt
- Litigation Costs Not Dischargeable in Bankruptcy
- PLRA Doesn't Apply to Civil Commitments
- 28 U.S.C. § 1915A Applies to All Prisoner Suits
- Filing Fee Refunded in Habeas Case
- No Filing Fee Required if IFP Denied in DC Circuit
- Prison Guard Golf Tourney Tees off Town
- Washington Prison Slavery Runs Competitors Out of Business, by Paul Wright
- Water Jet Companies Challenge Washington Slave Labor Laws
- Sylvia Baraldini Goes Home After Sixteen Years, by Julia Lutsky
- Torture "Aberrational" in U.S.
- Israeli Supreme Court Limits Torture
- Michigan DOC Settles DOJ Sexual Abuse Lawsuit, by Maia Justine Storm
- Prison Health Services Refuses to Pay
- Judicial Screening Applies Only to IFP Suits
- Lack of Evidence Bars Disciplinary Finding of Guilt
- Delay in Treating Injured Shoulder States Claim
- America's Toughest Sheriff Settles for $8.25 Million in Wrongful Death Suit
- Prison Realty Hires PR Firm
- "Three Strikes" Provision of PLRA Unconstitutional
- Florida State Prison Halloween Melee
- Constitutionality of ADA Upheld by Fourth Circuit
- Cell Feed Status May Give Jailer Actual Notice of Need to Protect Prisoner
- New Jersey Sex Offender Porn Ban Upheld
- PLRA Administrative Remedy Exhaustion Requirement Not Retroactive
- New York Parole Board Commissioner Convicted, by Julia Lutsky
- Nine Florida Guards Injured in Scuffle
- Whitestone Foundation
- Oregon DOC Liable for Attacks by Parolees
- Miscarriage is Serious Medical Condition
- Indigence is Cause to Retax Costs
- Notice of Summary Judgment Requirements Mandatory
- News in Brief
More from these topics:
- Federal Habeas Corpus: Getting Around Procedural Default, July 15, 2024. Habeas Corpus, Actual Innocence/Claim of Innocence, Ineffective Assistance of Counsel, Summary Disposition, Cause and Prejudice, Proving Cause.
- California Court of Appeal Announces Rulings on Three Issues of First Impression Involving Certificate of Appealability and Habeas Petition, July 15, 2024. Habeas Corpus, Appeals/Appellate Jurisdiction.
- Ohio Supreme Court Announces Same Postconviction-Relief Filing Deadline Applies to ‘Delayed Appeal’ as Applies to Any Other Type of Direct Appeal, July 15, 2024. Habeas Corpus.
- CoreCivic Sued by Former Detainee Stabbed at Shuttered Kansas Jail, July 1, 2024. Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Totality of Conditions, Failure to Protect (General), State Law Claims.
- Tennessee DOC Faulted for High Staff Vacancy and Turnover, Inadequate Programs, PREA Violations, July 1, 2024. Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Corrections Audits, Staffing.
- After Takeover from CoreCivic, Oklahoma Prison Even More Short-Staffed, June 1, 2024. Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Staffing.
- Harris County Shipping Detainees from Overcrowded Jail to Mississippi CoreCivic Prison, June 1, 2024. Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Overcrowding.
- Retraction: ‘Federal Habeas Corpus: The Savings Clause Remedy for Federal Prisoners’ by Dale Chappell, May 15, 2024. Habeas Corpus, AEDPA.
- The Death of the Savings Clause, May 15, 2024. Habeas Corpus, AEDPA.
- Legal Noose Tightens Around Necks of CDCR Officials Whose Botched Transfer Sparked San Quentin COVID-19 Outbreak, May 1, 2024. Transfers, COVID-19.