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A legal petition requesting that a judge examine whether an individual is being properly detained in jail, prison, or mental hospitals is called a(n):

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The correct answer is habeas corpus. This is defined as a recourse in a law by which a person can report in a way of having to show an unlawful detention or request a court order in the custodian of the person or even an imprisonment to a court.

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