United States Second Circuit

Denial of habeas petitions, challenging a policy and a regulation of the Bureau of Prisons that limit petitioner's placement in a community corrections center to the lesser of the last ten percent or six months of his sentence of imprisonment, is vacated. In transferring an inmate to a CCC or any "available penal or correctional facility," the BOP must consider the factors set forth in 18 U.S.C. section 3621(b), without reference to 28 C.F.R. section 570.21.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/10/2006
• Published 07/12/2006

Judges

• Before:  CALABRESI and RAGGI, Circuit Judges, and MURTHA, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Wylie M. Stecklow (Mark S. Silverman, on the brief), New York, N.Y., for Petitioner-Appellant., Peter Goldberger, Ardmore, Penn. (Todd A. Bussert, New Haven, Conn.;   Richard D. Willstatter, Green & Willstatter, White Plains, N.Y.;  Mary Price, Families Against Mandatory Minimums Foundation, Washington, D.C.;   and Michael L. Waldman, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, Washington, D.C.) for amici curiae Families Against Mandatory Minimums Foundation, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, in support of Petitioner-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Richard E. Rosberger, Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, for David N. Kelley, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (Neil M. Corwin, Assistant United States Attorney, on the brief), New York, N.Y., for Respondent-Appellee.