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STATE EX REL.CLIFTON v. YOUNG

Nos. 86-0203, 85-2161.

133 Wis.2d 193 (1986)

394 N.W.2d 769

STATE of Wisconsin EX REL. Billy Wayne CLIFTON, Petitioner-Respondent, v. Warren YOUNG, Superintendent, Waupun Correctional Institution, and Linda Reivitz, Secretary, Department of Health & Social Services, Respondents-Appellants. STATE of Wisconsin EX REL. John J. WATSON, Petitioner-Respondent. v. Warren YOUNG, Superintendent, Wisconsin Correctional Institution, and Linda Reivitz, Secretary, Department of Health & Social Services, Appellants.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Decided August 21, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the appellants, respondents-appellants and cross-respondents, the cause was submitted on the briefs of Bronson C. La Follette, attorney general, and Michael R. Klos, assistant attorney general.

For the petitioner-respondent and cross-appellant, the cause was submitted on the brief of Kenneth P. Casey, assistant state public defender.

Before Gartzke, P.J., Dykman and Eich, JJ.

EICH, J.

This is a consolidated appeal. The Department of Health and Social Services and the Waupun Correctional Institution (collectively, "the department") appeal from separate orders of the circuit directing them to give "good time"1 credit to two mandatory release parole violators, Billy Wayne Clifton and John J. Watson. The issues are: (1) whether habeas corpus is a proper means for review of the department's determination; and (2...

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