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State Prisoner Transfer To Federal Prison Constitutional

The U.S. Supreme Court held that the transfer of a Vermont prisoner to a
federal prison for security reasons was constitutional. Vermont, having no
maximum security prison, opted to transfer a prisoner convicted of violent
crimes to a federal prison under 18 U.S.C. § 5003(a) which permits federal
prisons to ...

 

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