Maryland House of Correction v. Fields

CHASANOW, Judge.

In this certiorari review of three decisions of the Court of Special Appeals, we must address the following questions:

1. Whether the failure of an inmate to raise an issue in an inmate grievance proceeding operates as a procedural bar to habeas corpus review of that issue;

2. Whether the Division of Correction (Division) awarded habeas corpus plaintiffs the proper number of diminution credits in light of a 1992 amendment to Maryland Code (1957, 1992 Repl.Vol.), Article 27, § 700(d)(3) that increased the rate of accumulation of diminution credits from five days per month to ten…