Does a transfer of an inmate from a federal prison to another federal prison violate the inmate's right to a new facility?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Cofield v. Swarthout, No. 2:12-cv-2343 EFB P (E.D. Cal. 2013):
United States v. Brown, 59 F.3d 102, 105 (9th Cir. 1995) (per curiam). Inmates have "no justifiable expectation" that they will be incarcerated in any particular prison, and transferring an inmate to another prison does not infringe a protected liberty interest. Olim, 461 U.S. at 245; Vitek v. Jones, 445 U.S. 480, 489 (1980).
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