Browning v. Michigan Department of Corrections

385 Mich. 179 (1971)

188 N.W.2d 552

BROWNING

v.

MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

No. 26 January Term 1971, Docket No. 52,726-1/2.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided July 7, 1971.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, and Stewart H. Freeman, Assistant Attorney General, for defendant.

T.M. KAVANAGH, C.J.

This is a prison "dead time" case here in the form of habeas corpus to inquire into petitioner's detention in the State Prison of Southern Michigan at Jackson. The term "dead time" as a convenient shorthand desription of a period, created by statute,[1] during…