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Fifth Circuit: Louisiana Prison Official Must Face Over-Detention Suit

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Louisiana man is kept in prison 41 days after his release date, part of a plague of "inexplicable and illegal over-detention in Louisiana prisons." Can he sue the head of state corrections? Fifth Circuit: Yup, sure can. We've said as much in other cases. Concurrences: But we were wrong! We should go en banc.

 


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