Estes v. Federal Bureau of Prisons

MEMORANDUM OPINION

BUTLER, District Judge.

This action involves a challenge to a Bureau of Prisons (BOP) policy regarding incarceration of federal prisoners in Community Corrections Centers (CCC’s). At issue is whether the BOP has violated either the Administrative Procedures Act (APA) or the plaintiffs’ constitutional rights by concluding that, as a matter of law, the BOP cannot allow a federal prisoner to serve a term of imprisonment in a CCC. Because the Court concludes that the BOP’s policy is invalid under the APA, it does not reach the constitutional issues.

I. Facts

Each of the plaintiffs…