Wilkinson v. McManus

Petitioner, who is incarcerated at the state prison, appeals from the district court’s order denying his petition for either a writ of habeas corpus or an injunction. His petition challenged the constitutionality of the Minnesota prison labor program, under which a prisoner receives a small amount of compensation for each day that he works plus a certain amount of time off from his sentence for each month that he works at his prison job “with diligence and fidelity” and otherwise conducts himself properly. See, Minn. St. 243.18 and 243.23. As we interpret it, the petition was addressed to the…