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Fed BOP Can Declare State Prison a Place of Fed Incarceration

Loaded on May 15, 2007

Filed under: Classification, Out of State Transfers, Transfers, U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, Detainers. Location: New York.

Hassan Abdul-Malik was in New York state custody in 1993 when he was
transferred to federal custody, convicted of postal robbery, and sentenced
to thirty years in federal prison. He was then returned to state custody
where he was convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to seventeen years
in state ...

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