Hacker v. United States

The facts sufficiently appear from the opinion of the court.

Plaintiff seeks damages for an alleged breach of contract based on the fact that the defendant’s agents at Leavenworth penitentiary, while plaintiff was on parole from that institution, delivered custody of plaintiff to the agents of the State of Indiana. He alleges that such delivery was wrongful under the terms of 18 U. S. C. 4164, which is as follows:

A prisoner having served the term or terms for which he shall have been sentenced after June 29, 1982, less good time deductions, shall upon release be treated as if released on…