Harr v. Karlen

Rehearing Denied July 9, 2003.

ORDER

Wisconsin inmate Daniel Harr contends that his First and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated when a prison disciplinary board extended his mandatory release date as a penalty for writing a letter to a newspaper criticizing conditions at out-of-state facilities where many Wisconsin prisoners serve their time. After unsuccessfully litigating this same claim in civil rights suits brought both in state and federal courts, Harr filed this habeas corpus action under 28 U.S.C. § 2254. The district court held that Harr had failed to exhaust his state-court…