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Ninth Circuit Strikes Down BOP Rule Limiting Early Release for RDAP Participants
Loaded on March 15, 2010
by Brandon Sample
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2010, page 28
Following its recent decision in Arrington v. Daniels, 516 F.3d 1106 (9th Cir. 2008) [PLN, June 2009, p.44], the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit struck down another federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) rule that limits early release for certain prisoners who participate in the BOP’s Residential Drug ...
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Sentencing,
Good Time,
Administrative Procedures Act (Federal),
Drug Treatment/Rehab.
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