Legal Opinion
Albers v. Ralston
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided December 3, 1981No. Nos. 81-1296 to 81-1298PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRIGHT, Circuit Judge.
Three prisoners, Marvin N. Albers, Joseph L. Burnett, and William John Politte, in separate habeas corpus petitions, complain that George A. Ralston, Warden of the United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners, Springfield, Missouri (Warden), adversely affected their conditions of confinement by refusing to follow the Bureau of Prisons regulations in classifying them. Specifically, the prisoners contend they did not receive on the security scoring portion of their custody classification forms a six-point credit for voluntary surrender to federal authorities. As a…
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