Legal Opinion
EDWARD J. WEDELSTEDT v. RON WILEY, WARDEN, FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION—CAMP FLORENCE, COLORADO
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided February 20, 2007No. 06-1461PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MURPHY, Circuit Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
Petitioner-Appellee Edward J. Wedel-stedt, a federal inmate housed at the Federal Prison Camp in Florence, Colorado, applied to the district court for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241. Wedelstedt challenged the lawfulness of Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”) regulations prohibiting his transfer to a Community Correctional Center (“CCC”) until ten percent of his sentence remains. Wedel-stedt argued the regulations, codified at 28 C.F.R. §§ 570.20 and 570.21, are inconsistent with clear congressional intent articulated in 18 U.S.C. § 3621(b).…
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