Figueroa v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole

OPINION BY

Judge LEAVITT.

Ismael Figueroa petitions for review of a decision of the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole (Board) denying his request for credit toward his recalculated sentence. Figueroa contends that the Board erred in failing to grant him credit for a portion of the time he resided at the Joseph E. Coleman Center, a privately run community corrections center in Philadelphia. We are asked to consider whether the conditions at the Center were sufficiently custodial to support Figueroa’s claim for credit toward his sentence.

In April 1995, Figueroa was sentenced to a term of…