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IN RE HEAD

Docket No. Crim. 24619.

42 Cal.3d 223 (1986)

721 P.2d 65

228 Cal. Rptr. 184

In re JOEL HEAD et al. on Habeas Corpus.

Supreme Court of California.

July 24, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Donald Specter and Margaret Littlefield for Petitioners.

John H. Hagar, Jr., and Paul Hoffman as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioners.

John K. Van de Kamp, Attorney General, Karl S. Mayer, Assistant Attorney General, Kenneth C. Young, Elizabeth Edwards, Paul Gifford, Catherine A. Rivlin and Thomas P. Dove, Deputy Attorneys General, for Respondent.

OPINION

GRODIN, J.

Three prison inmates represented by the Prison Law Office1 challenged the procedures under which the Department of Corrections implemented the work furlough program authorized by Penal Code sections 6260-6265. After consolidating the petitions the superior court found the procedures to be constitutionally inadequate. That court ordered individualized consideration of inmates to determine...

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