Gillespie v. DEPT. OF CORR.

How courts have described this case

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• explaining Section 9757 applies to sentences imposed at different times by different courts; therefore, DOC correctly aggregated inmate’s Centre and Luzerne County sentences into single sentence
• considering action properly filed before Commonwealth Court, though titled as petition for habeas corpus, when petition was “not a proper habeas corpus action but rather akin to an action in mandamus.”
• “[T]he proper method by which a prisoner could challenge the aggregation of his sentences [i]s through a mandamus action.”
• the Department, not the Board, is responsible for calculating the minimum and maximum terms of prisoners committed to its jurisdiction
• “[The Commonwealth Court’s original jurisdiction is narrowly circumscribed to encompass civil actions or proceedings by or against the Commonwealth or any officer thereof acting in his official capacity or where otherwise specifically conferred by statute.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).