Barrett v. Belleque

While serving a prison term in Oregon, petitioner filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus claiming that he was entitled to a hearing before prison officials removed him from the general prison population and placed him in the prison’s intensive management rmit (IMU). The trial court dismissed the petition for failure to state a claim. The Court of Appeals affirmed on different grounds, holding that, because petitioner could have challenged the state’s placement of him in IMU without a hearing under 42 USC section 1983, that alternative remedy foreclosed habeas relief. Barrett v.…