Pfefferle v. Corrections Commission

Sidney Pfefferle, an inmate imprisoned in the State Prison of Southern Michigan in Jackson, seeks a writ of mandamus to compel defendants to restore two years of accumulated good time withdrawn by defendants following plaintiff’s escape from custody. Plaintiff claims that the procedures used by defendants to withdraw the good time were constitutionally defective.

A brief recitation of background facts is helpful. In March, 1968, plaintiff was sentenced to 15 to 30 years for second-degree murder, MCL 750.317; MSA 28.549. While serving his sentence at Jackson Prison, plaintiff was accumulating…