Legal Opinion
Monahan v. Winn
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided August 12, 2003No. CIV.03-40075-NG, CIV.03-10308-NG, CRIM.01-10385-NG, CIV.03-40139-NGPublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM RE: BUREAU OF PRISONS’ NEW COMMUNITY CONFINEMENT POLICY
GERTNER, District Judge.
I. INTRODUCTION
Just before Christmas 2002, after many judges and court personnel had left for the holidays, the Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”) faxed a letter to all federal judges. In the letter, the BOP announced that designations of offenders to community confinement were forbidden as a matter of law, notwithstanding the long-established BOP policy and practice of adopting judicial recommendations to place nonviolent inmates in such facilities to serve short terms of imprisonment. The BOP also announced its…
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3Cited by30 opinions
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