Legal Opinion
Demis v. Sniezek
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided March 9, 2009No. 07-4129PublishedCited by 266 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CLAY, Circuit Judge.
Petitioner-Appellant, Louis W. Demis (“Demis”), a federal prisoner at the time he filed the instant action, applied to the district court for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241, challenging the lawfulness of the Bureau of Prisons’ (“BOP”) regulations prohibiting prisoner transfer to a community correctional center (“CCC”) — now known as residential reentry centers (“RRC”) — until the prisoner has served at least ninety percent of his or her sentence. Specifically, Demis argued that the BOP’s regulations, codified at 28 C.F.R. §§ 570.20 and 570.21,…
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