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Oregon Habeas Cognizable to Challenge Confinement in Florida and Colorado under Interstate Compact

Loaded on Sept. 30, 2016 published in Prison Legal News October, 2016, page 34
Filed under: Out of State Transfers, Transfers, Conditions of Confinement, Grooming Rules, Habeas Corpus, RLUIPA, Religious Grooming. Locations: Colorado, Florida, Oregon.

In a pair of rulings, the Oregon Court of Appeals held that prisoners incarcerated in other states under the Interstate Corrections Compact (ICC) may challenge the conditions of their confinement in habeas corpus actions against Oregon prison officials.

In 1979, the Oregon legislature voted to codify the ICC under state ...

 

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