United States First Circuit

Under 18 U.S.C. section 3621(b), the Bureau of Prisons has discretionary authority to designate any available penal or correctional facility as the place of a prisoner's imprisonment, and to transfer a prisoner at anytime to such a facility.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/09/2004
• Published 09/09/2004

Judges

• LIPEZ, Circuit Judge., Before LIPEZ and HOWARD, Circuit Judges, and LISI, District Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Morris M. Goldings on brief pro se., Charles W. Rankin and Peter Goldberger for National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Criminal Justice Act Board, and Families Against Mandatory Minimums Foundation, amici curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• George B. Henderson, II, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Michael J. Sullivan, United States Attorney, was on brief for appellees.