United States v. Montez Bush

Federal prisoner Montez Bush is serving a 180-month sentence imposed in the Southern District of Ohio in 2007 after a jury convicted him of drug and firearm offenses. In March 2014, he was transferred from a federal prison in California to the United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners (MCFP) in Springfield, Missouri, as a result of his psychological deterioration. In April 2014, the government filed this 18 U.S.C. § 4245 petition, alleging there was reasonable cause to believe, based on a psychological report prepared by MCFP’s mental health professionals, that Bush was suffering…