Legal Opinion
Evans v. Willingham
District Court, D. Connecticut
Decided February 2, 2006No. CIVA.3:05CV1904(SRU)PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RULING ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS
UNDERHILL, District Judge.
Marjorie Evans, an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dan-bury, Connecticut, has petitioned the court for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241. In principal, she seeks— not release from custody — but an order, directing the warden to consider her for transfer to a Community Corrections Center (“CCC”), and enjoining the Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”) from applying 28 C.F.R. § 570.20-.21. That rule, promulgated in 2005, excludes from consideration for transfers to CCC’s any prisoner with more than…
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