Bureau-of-Prisons
47 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6823 | Sonny Austin Ramdeo v. D. Tyler, Federal Bureau of Prisons Residential Reentry Manager, Orlando, Florida | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-02-17 | Pending | IFP | bureau-of-prisons earned-time-credits federal-rule-of-appellate-procedure-40 frivolous-appeal in-forma-pauperis presidential-clemency | Whether a court of appeals may deny leave to proceed in forma pauperis as "frivolous" when the appeal turns on a federal statutory question the court … |
| 25A742 | Shameek J. Halls v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-12-23 | Application | bureau-of-prisons criminal-procedure judicial-review plea-agreement second-circuit summary-order | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6415 | Juan Viana-Hernandez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-22 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | bureau-of-prisons criminal-procedure custodial-sentence judicial-modification rule-36 sentencing | Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 36 is titled "Clerical Error" and states, "[a]fter giving any notice it considers appropriate, the court may at any… |
| 25-5105 | Anthony Michael Laporte v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bureau-of-prisons extraordinary-compelling-reason mental-health-treatment rehabilitation sentence-reduction sentencing-disparity | 1. Can rehabilitation efforts, when combined with other issues, constitute an extraordinary and compelling reason to reduce a sentence? 2. Can the di… |
| 24-6464 | Zachary Stinson v. Felipe Martinez, Jr., Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2025-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bureau-of-prisons first-step-act prerelease-custody recidivism-reduction sentencing-credits time-credits | The First Step Act of 2018 established incentives for federal prisoners to participate in evidence-based recidivism reduction programs and productive … |
| 24-6131 | Kristopher Jacob Freda v. Oregon | Oregon | 2024-12-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bureau-of-prisons compassionate-release discretionary-relief extraordinary-circumstances first-step-act sentencing-reduction | 1) If the petitioner is really scared, scared, scared, scared, scared, scared, scared, scared, scared, scared, scared, scared, scared, scared, scared,… |
| 24-6069 | In Re Christian D. Womack | 2024-12-04 | Dismissed | IFP | bureau-of-prisons constitutional-rights due-process federal-commitment judicial-order personal-liberty | This Court has held that commitment for any purpose constitutes a significant deprivation of liberty that requires protection under the federal Consti… | |
| 24A439 | John Xavier Portillo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-11-01 | Presumed Complete | appellate-counsel bureau-of-prisons constitutional-standard ineffective-assistance prejudice writ-of-certiorari | The question presented to this Court will relate to the proper standard to be used to evaluate prejudice when a Defendant alleges his appellate counse… | |
| 24A375 | Atif B. Malik v. Warden, Federal Correctional Institution, Loretto | Third Circuit | 2024-10-21 | Presumed Complete | 28-usc-2241 bureau-of-prisons earned-time-credits first-step-act mootness pro-se-petition | Question not identified. | |
| 24-5625 | Sheng-Wen Cheng v. Steve Kallis, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2024-09-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alien-prisoners bureau-of-prisons due-process equal-protection removal-policy residential-reentry-center | 1. Does Respondent Jared Rardin's ("BOP") policy of barring federal alien prisoners with a final order of removal from being eligible/considered for R… |
| 24-5222 | Darrell D. Smith v. B. Eischen, Warden | Eighth Circuit | 2024-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | Bureau-of-Prisons Equal-Protection First-Step-Act first-time-credits FTC-Earnings imposed-term Liberty-Interest sentence-computation | "Imposed Term" 1. Whether "imposed term" used in 18 §3624 (g) , defining the application of FTCs (First Step Time Credits) , has the same credit appli… |
| 23-7440 | Michael Paul Puzey v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bureau-of-prisons compassionate-release criminal-justice-reform federal-sentencing first-step-act judicial-review rehabilitation sentence-modification sentencing statutory-interpretation | "Balancing Justice and Compassion: A Case for Revisiting Compassionate Release under the First Step Act" |
| 23A963 | Jovan Marquis Harris v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-04-26 | Presumed Complete | bureau-of-prisons criminal-procedure eighth-circuit federal-inmate petition-for-certiorari pro-se | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6889 | Richard Wayne Barton v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeals bureau-of-prisons certificate-of-appealability civil-rights due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus obstruction-of-justice record-on-appeal | Whether the Bureau of Prisons' failure and refusal to tender to Barton his Record on Appeal, provided by the Fifth Circuit to enable Barton to prepare… |
| 23A398 | Jeriah Scott Budder v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-11-01 | Presumed Complete | bureau-of-prisons criminal-appeal sentencing standard-of-review tenth-circuit voluntary-manslaughter | Question not identified. | |
| 23-5074 | Juan Carlos Valles, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-07-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bureau-of-prisons federal-prosecution fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment selective-enforcement selective-prosecution statutory-obligations | I, Petitioner Juan Carlos Valles, Jr., state that this petition presents an issue of great public importance, addressed to the policy of Federal Prose… |
| 22-7336 | Shawn Kaleb Drake v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-04-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bureau-of-prisons credit criminal-procedure duty-to-determine federal-sentence federal-sentencing judicial-discretion presentence-detention sentencing | 1. If a defendant requests that he be given credit towards his federal sentence for presentence detention time, is a district court – knowing that the… |
| 22-6324 | Matthew Ruben Hernandez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-12-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion Bureau-of-Prisons civil-procedure discretionary-review extraordinary-and-compelling-reason medical-conditions pandemic pandemic-impact sentence-modification statutory-interpretation | Did the District Court abuse its discretion and misconstrue the law in determining that the Bureau of Prisons' failure to manage Mr. Hernandez's sever… |
| 22-6102 | Samuel Turner v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bureau-of-prisons civil-procedure court-deadline covid-19-lockdown due-process equity excusable-neglect judicial-discretion pandemic prisoner-rights | I. WHETHER CERTIORARI SHOULD BE GRANTED BECAUSE THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT HAS SO FAR DEPARTED FROM THE ACCEPTED AND USUAL COURSE OF … |
| 22-5998 | Jeffrey Wingate v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-11-07 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-3553 bureau-of-prisons criminal-procedure due-process mitigating-evidence rule-35 rule-35-resentencing sentencing sentencing-factors | 1) Whether due process is violated when, in the event a defendant submits mitigating evidence in a rule 35 (b) resentencing that has a connection to… |
| 22-5710 | Lisa A. Biron v. Colette S. Peters, Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2022-09-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accardi-doctrine administrative-procedure-act bureau-of-prisons discretionary-actions judicial-review prisoner-rights regulatory-compliance | Are discretionary actions of the federal Bureau of Prisons ("FBOP") — an executive agency responsible for more than 130-thousand prisoners nation wide… |
| 21-8234 | Bithomas Ceasar, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-06-27 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | bureau-of-prisons commitment competency competency-hearing criminal-procedure district-court judicial-authority mental-health-commitment restoration statutory-interpretation | Whether a district court lacks authority to order additional competency-restoration commitment under 18 U.S.C. § 4241(d)(2) once the director of a Bur… |
| 21-7510 | Ramon Lopez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-04-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bureau-of-prisons compassionate-release criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing extraordinary-circumstances federal-corrections federal-sentencing-guidelines sentence-reduction sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether Criminal Defendants may use the "recently amended" Compassionate Release Statute [18 U.S.C. Sec. 3582(c)(1)(A)]'to reduce or correct an exce… |
| 21-6972 | Maria Haydee Luzula v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bureau-of-prisons circuit-split first-step-act non-delegation-doctrine sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | Whether U.S.S.G. § 1B1.13 is an "applicable" policy statement that binds a district court in considering a defendant-filed motion for sentence reducti… |
| 21-6956 | Roman Enrique Delgado-Montoya v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-01-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bureau-of-prisons circuit-split compassionate-release criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons federal-prisoner-relief first-step-act sentencing-commission sentencing-modification statutory-interpretation | Under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i), the district court is limited to the "extraordinary and compelling reasons" given in application note 1 of the com… |
| 21-6707 | Antonio Turner v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-12-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 3553(a)-factors administrative-remedy bureau-of-prisons compassionate-release criminal-sentencing extraordinary-and-compelling-reasons extraordinary-compelling-reasons first-step-act sentence-reduction sentencing-guidelines | Whether the district court erred by denying Mr. Turner's Motion for Sentence Reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(1)(A)(i). |
| 21-6022 | In Re Robert L. Hedrick | 2021-10-21 | Dismissed | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | access-to-courts bureau-of-prisons civil-procedure deliberate-indifference due-process eighth-amendment frivolous plausible-claim rule-8 standing | Did the Court Error in ruling that "the complaint failed to comply with Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8(a)? 2. Did the Court Error in ruling that t… | |
| 21-5632 | Eliseo Carrillo, III v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bureau-of-prisons criminal-law district-court due-process liberty liberty-interest mental-health sentencing supervised-release upward-departure | Whether the District Court deprived the Petitioner of liberty within the terms of 18 U.S.C. 3583 (c) and (d) by upward departing in re-sentencing Peti… |
| 21-5297 | Kurzie Lee Curtis v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-04 | Denied | IFP | 8th-amendment bureau-of-prisons civil-rights compassionate-release due-process first-step-act | Questions of law In Belatiol To Inoiztment whe A MAabo DiniVE is AN AulhoAtive iNstmenthat Dicates thAN C PC CuDCAN n ea.RulE 12. Rsion ofTue b6sEsFed… |
| 20-8194 | Irvin Moreno v. DeWayne Hendrix, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2021-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-procedure-act bureau-of-prisons drug-trafficking nonviolent-offense sentence-reduction sentencing-reduction statutory-interpretation supervised-release | Did the BOP violate the plain meaning of the relevant sentencing statutes and regulations by categorically disqualifying a prisoner convicted of a non… |
| 20-6666 | Sebastian L. Eccleston v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-12-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bureau-of-prisons concurrent-sentences consecutive-sentences criminal-justice due-process federal-prisoner federal-sentencing sentencing-statutes state-judiciary | In Setser v. United States, this Court construed the third sentence of 18 USC §3584(a) to be inapplicable in cases where a federal sentence is imposed… |
| 19-7843 | Tony Buck v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-03-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bureau-of-prisons constitutional-law constitutional-rights conviction criminal-conviction criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-review punishment punishment-clause sentencing | Whether the Judgment of Conviction should be vacated as a violation of the Double Jeopardy Clause because the Judgment punishes Mr. Buck for the exact… |
| 19-7763 | Jean Bernier v. J. C. Holland, Warden, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3585 18-usc-3621 18-usc-3621b administrative-discretion barden-determination bureau-of-prisons custody-credit federal-custody federal-sentencing sentence-commencement state-custody statutory-authority statutory-interpretation | DOES THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS EXCEED THE STATUTORY AUTHORITY CONFERRED UPON THE AGENCY BY CONGRESS IN 18 U.S.C. § 3585(a), WHEN IT COMMENCES A … |
| 19-7428 | Timothy O'Laughlin v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bureau-of-prisons civil-commitment civil-rights civil-rights-deprivation due-process personal-liberty pro-se pro-se-litigation pro-se-petition sixth-amendment standing standing-to-file | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 4247(h) unconstitutionally and illegally deprives individuals of the right to litigate their personal liberty interests pro se, un… |
| 19-7188 | John Jay Powers v. M. L. Stancil | Tenth Circuit | 2020-01-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-3584 18-usc-3584a administrative-deference administrative-law bureau-of-prisons criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing deference federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-courts federal-sentencing sentencing-interpretation statutory-ambiguity statutory-interpretation | FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ANY OF THE CIRCUITS, THE TENTH CIRCUIT HELD THE LANGUAGE OF 18 U.S.C. 3584(a)'S PHRASE "AT THE SAME TIME" TO BE AMBIGUOUS. THE T… |
| 19-6434 | Lawrence T. Tyler v. Federal Bureau of Prisons, et al. | District of Columbia | 2019-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-procedure administrative-procedures-act adverse-determination agency bureau-of-prisons civil-rights due-process human-trafficking national-origin-discrimination privacy-act record-accuracy standing | 1, Whether the challenged records used to make an adverse determination against me are indeed inaccurate and/or incomplete as a matter of this U.S. Su… |
| 19-6416 | Jurijus Kadamovas v. John F. Caraway, Warden, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2019-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment administrative-discretion administrative-law bureau-of-prisons civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process medical-care medical-conditions prison-conditions prisoner-rights standing torture-prevention | 1) WHETHER THE FEDERAL AGENT ROW (PARTY WHO HAS BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH ASTHMA CAN BE TORTURED IN CUSTODY OF THE BUREAU OF PRISONS BY EXPOSURE TO OLEORESI… |
| 18-9662 | Mark Alan Lane v. Josias Salazar, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bureau-of-prisons due-process first-amendment penological-interests prisoner-speech prisoners-rights procunier-v-martinez prohibited-act-code-203 true-threats void-for-vagueness | As construed to apply to statements in outgoing mail that are not true threats, is Prohibited Act Code 203 crafted so that its "limitation of First Am… |
| 18-9499 | Chad Austin v. Timothy Stewart, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2019-05-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal bureau-of-prisons civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-sentencing-guidelines judicial-review retroactive-application sentencing statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation time-bar | 1.) Hows Can the Bureay of Prisons make petitioners Federal Sentence, when petitioner was sentenced on 11/iz/1999 under manttory sentencing Gidelines"… |
| 18-9456 | Gary Giovon Lynn v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bureau-of-prisons constitutional-law federal-bureau-of-prisons federal-sentencing nunc-pro-tunc procedural-error sentencing sentencing-authority sentencing-procedure-error separation-of-powers setser-v-united-states ussg-5g1-3c | I. When the district court failed to follow the Court's ruling in Setser v. United States, 566 U.S. 231 (2012) at sentencing did it engage in an imper… |
| 18-7994 | Daniel H. King v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bureau-of-prisons civil-commitment civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure custody-transfer district-of-columbia due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether someone serving a sentence imposed by the District of Columbia whose physical custody was transferred to the Bureau of Prisons is "in the cust… |
| 18-7122 | Jeffrey Thomas Gola v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | ability-to-pay Ability-to-pay-restitution BOP-jurisdiction-over-payment-plan bureau-of-prisons Consideration-of-18-USC-3664-factors constitutional-liberties Delegation-of-authority-to-BOP financial-responsibility mandatory-victims-restitution-act payment-schedule plain-error Plain-error-in-restitution-order restitution restitution-payment | Is the BOP's Financial Responsibility Program, 28 C.F.R §54510-11, voluntary when constitutional liberties are taken for non-participation? Does the … |
| 18-6895 | Michael Clark v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2018-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bureau-of-prisons circuit-court classification criminal-history habeas-corpus judicial-review relief revocation sentencing sentencing-guidelines sentencing-relief seventh-circuit | Since a defendant's criminal history category establishes the U.S Sentencing Guidelines' policy range of imprisonment upon revocation and can result i… |
| 18-6868 | In Re Peter T. Roukis | 2018-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | Article-12 bureau-of-prisons civil-rights custody discharged-prisoners due-process legal-custody military-prisoners uniform-code-of-military-justice | Are discharged military prisoners confined within the Bureau Of Prisons subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice (ucmJ)? Does Article 12, UCMJ… | |
| 18-6481 | Jeremy Fontanez v. Joseph Coakley, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2018-10-29 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 28-usc-2241 bureau-of-prisons circuit-split criminal-sentencing due-process due-process-clause fifth-amendment inmate-financial-responsibility-program mandatory-victims-restitution-act restitution restitution-order voluntary | DOES THE SENTENCING COURT VIOLATE THE MANDATORY VICTIMS RESTITUTION..ACT (MV -RA) WHEN IT DELEGATES ITS RESTITUTION PAYMENTS TO THE BOP? IS THE DUE P… |
| 18-5319 | Timothy Galen Tolbert v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3583 bureau-of-prisons drug-treatment due-process liberty liberty-deprivation post-release-conditions revocation sentencing statutory-interpretation supervised-release | Whether the District Court deprived the Petitioner of liberty within the terms of 18 U.S.C. 3583 (c) and (d) by re-sentencing Petitioner to incarcerat… |
| 18-5144 | Julio Gutierrez-Jaramillo v. Warden, FCI Gilmer | Fourth Circuit | 2018-07-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-3585 bureau-of-prisons bureau-of-prisons-program-statement criminal-procedure due-process extradition federal-bureau-of-prisons foreign-detention judicial-discretion sentencing sentencing-credit sentencing-guidelines time-credit time-served united-states-v-wilson | I. Whether prior credit for time held in foreign detention can only be given by the Federal Bureau of Prisons and to do so by the district court at se… |