Brant v. Fielder

The appellant, James Robert Brant, filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in the Lincoln County District Court. 1 In the petition, the appellant asserted that he was a prisoner of the State of Wisconsin, and that he had been transported to and confined in Colorado in the Limón Correctional Facility under the Interstate Corrections Compact, §§ 24-60-1601 to -1603, 10B C.R.S. (1988). The appellant claimed that after arriving in Colorado he was placed in “punitive segregation” without a prior hearing, contrary to Wisconsin law, that he had been forced to dispose of his color television…