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BOP Work Release Injunction Vacated as Moot

Loaded on May 15, 2007

Filed under: Work Release, Civil Procedure, Mootness, Ex Post Facto. Location: District of Columbia.

The plaintiff was notified he would be transferred out of a community
corrections center pursuant to the Department of Justice's abruptly
announced policy change prohibiting assignment to such facilities except
for the last 10% of a prisoner's sentence. He obtained a preliminary
injunction prohibiting moving him from the facility he …

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