United States Eighth Circuit

Bureau of Prison's policy of limiting prisoner placement in Community Corrections Centers to the lesser of six months or ten percent of the prisoner' sentence is based on an erroneous interpretation of 18 U.S.C. Sections 3621(b) and 3624(c) and is invalid.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/18/2004
• Published 10/18/2004

Judges

• MELLOY, Circuit Judge., Before RILEY, LAY, and MELLOY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Tim Cullen, argued, Little Rock, AR, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• E. Fletcher Jackson, argued, Asst. U.S. Atty., Little Rock, AR, for appellee.