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BOP Enjoined in Transferring Prisoners from Work Release

Loaded on May 15, 2007

Filed under: Work Release, Preliminary Injunctions/TRO's, Administrative Exhaustion, Ex Post Facto, Good Time, Federal Statutory Law, Administrative Procedures Act (Federal). Location: Maryland.

The court grants a preliminary injunction against the transfer of three
persons serving sentences in community confinement centers who have been
notified that they will be transferred to a federal prison for the
remainder of their sentences based on the Department of Justice's new
theory that the practice of decades, …

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