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Fifth Circuit: No Right to RDAP for Non-citizen Federal Prisoner
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2013
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2013, page 53
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held last year that a non-citizen federal prisoner had no constitutional right to participate in a substance abuse rehabilitation program that could reduce his sentence by up to a year.Ricardo Gallegos-Hernandez, a federal prisoner and Mexican national who had an Immigration and Customs ...
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