Russell v. Inspectors of the State Prison
This text of 1 McGrath 1093 (Russell v. Inspectors of the State Prison) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Michigan Supreme Court primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
To compel respondent to desist from teaching convicts in the State Prison the mechanical trade of wagon making, and from manufacturing wagons in said prison with convict labor.-
Denied 1856.
Held, that it is for the agent of the prison to determine the question what trades are within the- constitutional provision, and that the court will not interfere by mandamus to control the agent in the exercise of his discretion.
Whether a private individual can apply for a writ in such case, quere.
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