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Ninth Circuit Upholds BOP Boot Camp Termination

Loaded on Aug. 15, 2013

Filed under: Boot Camps, Ex Post Facto, Habeas Corpus, U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, Federal Statutory Law, Administrative Procedures Act (Federal). Location: California.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) did not violate the Administrative Procedures Act (APA) or a prisoner’s constitutional rights when it terminated its boot camp program.

Congress passed a law in 1990, authorizing BOP to implement a boot camp program. By rule, ...

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