Legal Opinion
Daniel J. Waletzki v. P.W. Keohane, Warden
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 6, 1994No. 93-1498PublishedCited by 101 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
This is an appeal from the denial of habeas corpus to a federal prisoner, Daniel Waletzki. 28 U.S.C. § 2241. A federal statute (since repealed, but applicable to the considerable number of prisoners who committed their offenses before November 1, 1987) allows a prison to award good-time credits, which reduce a prisoner’s sentence, for meritorious performance of the job to which the prisoner is assigned. 18 U.S.C. § 4162. Waletzki claims that he should have received such credits for his work in the food service department of his prison; he argues that the refusal to award…
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