Legal Opinion
Standifer v. Ledezma
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided August 10, 2011No. 11-6025PublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judge.
Steve Standifer, a federal prisoner proceeding pro se, 1 challenges a Bureau of Prisons (BOP) regulation that denies him eligibility to participate in its Residential Drug Abuse Program (RDAP). He is ineligible for the program because his last-reported date of drug use was more than three years before his arrest on federal charges. Standifer contends the BOP’s policy requiring that it consider only his substance-abuse history for the 12 months preceding his arrest is based on an unreasonable interpretation of authorizing statutes. This claim fails because the BOP’s…
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