Opinion
No. 09-35830.
Argued and Submitted October 4, 2010.
Filed December 8, 2010.
Stephen R. Sady, Federal Public Defender's Office, Portland, OR, for Petitioner-Appellant.
Kelly A. Zusman, Assistant U.S. Office of the U.S. Attorney, Portland, OR, for Respondent-Appellee.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Oregon, Malcolm F. Marsh, District Judge, Presiding. DC No. 08 cv-0300 MA.
Before: TASHIMA, PAEZ, and CLIFTON, Circuit Judges.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.
Danny Ryan Sass appeals the district court's denial of his petition for writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1291 and 2253(a), and we affirm.
1. Sass contends that the Bureau of Prisons' ("BOP") policies interpreting the Second Chance Act ("SCA") are substantively and procedurally invalid. The SCA, however, had not yet become effective, and the BOP's memoranda and regulations that are at issue on appeal had not yet been implemented when the BOP denied Sass' only request for a transfer to a Residential Re-Entry Center ("RRC") that is documented in the record. Accordingly, Sass' claims challenging the BOP's SCA-based policies are not ripe for review. See Bova v. City of Medford, 564 F.3d 1093, 1096 (9th Cir. 2009).
2. Sass also argues that the BOP, in denying his particular request for transfer to an RRC, violated 18 U.S.C. § 3621 by failing to consider the factors enumerated in that statute. We conclude that the record does not support this contention. We further note that, in any event, the BOP will evaluate any future RRC applications by Sass under its SCA-based policies, which we recently approved in the related case of Sacora v. Thomas, 628 F.3d 1059, 1061 (9th Cir. 2010).