Tart v. Warden

The petitioner, Allen Tart, is presently incarcerated in Wallens Ridge State Prison in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, having been transferred there from a Connecticut prison per order of the respondent, the warden of the state prison. The petitioner claims that the Interstate Corrections Compact provides that a transferred inmate may not be deprived of any legal rights which that inmate would have had if confined in Connecticut which, in the present case, is the “sending” state. He alleges that he did not have a hearing prior to being sent to Virginia. He is correct that he is entitled in Virginia…