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A Healthy Exchange on Goldings v. Winn

By Tom Lincoln

I am posting an exchange from the BOPWatch listserve, which directly pertains to the Goldings v. Winn, No. 03-2633 (1st Cir. September 9, 2004) we covered in an earlier post here, and which I believe may be of assistance to all of us.The question raised by one of the listserve members was as follows: Once a person is in BOP custody, can an attorney help them get transferred  from a camp to 1/2 house or home detention?       One client is young man with fraud conviction & no priors who didn't make it at boot camp (not sure why he wanted boot camp as his sentence was 1 yr & 1 day). Anyway, now he is at Jesup & the family wants to hire me to help him get 1/2 house or home detention. He has served 6 months....continue to full post

Full post as published by Puerto Rico Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers on September 22, 2004 (boomark / email).