Pruitt v. Cook

{¶ 1} Kenneth Pruitt asserts that he is being unlawfully detained because the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction and Warden Brian Cook are ignoring the jail-time credit awarded him by the trial court in his criminal case on February 17, 2011. However, the February 17 entry was in error and corrected by another entry on February 18, 2011.

{¶ 2} Pruitt could have, but did not, appeal the second entry. He therefore had an adequate remedy in the ordinary course of law, precluding a writ of habeas corpus. He has filed a previous habeas action, precluding a second petition. And on the…