Colton v. Ashcroft

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

COFFMAN, District Judge.

The plaintiff, a federal prisoner, seeks injunctive relief against a regulation which would delay his release into a halfway house until only ten percent of his sentence remains. He claims that the regulation violates his rights under the Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and that it violates the Administrative Procedure Act. Deeming futile the exhaustion of administrative remedies and finding that the plaintiff has a strong likelihood of success…