Gene Vontell Graham v. G. Michael Broglin

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing the difference between “[having] the run of the prison” 4 and “solitary confinement” as a difference in level of custody adequate for habeas jurisdiction
• stating that if a prisoner is challenging “merely the conditions of his confinement his proper remedy is under civil rights law” and not federal habeas
• stating that civil rights was proper avenue “even if, as will usually be the case, the program or location or environment that he is challenging is more restrictive than the alternative that he seeks.”
• noting that successful completion of the work release program at issue in Brennan - a program designed to test the prisoner's ability to function outside of prison - would have led to parole
• “[H]ome is a less restrictive place in which to serve one’s sentence as well as a different one.”
• prisoner seeking “freedom” of parole is “seeking what can fairly be described as a quantum change in the level of custody” and must bring suit under habeas corpus statute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).