MARCUS, Justice.
Gilbert Sanchez, an inmate at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in district court in which he asked the court to order his transfer from maximum to medium security status at the prison. The district court granted the writ. We granted the application of the Department of Corrections for certiorari.
On December 6, 1973, Gilbert...
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