POSNER, Circuit Judge. We write to clarify the relation between an action for habeas corpus ( 28 U.S.C. § 2254 ) and a civil rights action ( 42 U.S.C. § 1983 ) as vehicles by which state prisoners can challenge their confinement on federal constitutional grounds. After violating parole, Gene Graham was retur…
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