UNITED STATES v. WARDEN OF FEDERAL DETENTION HEADQUARTERS


239 F.Supp. 724 (1965)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Harold KONIGSBERG, Petitioner, v. WARDEN OF FEDERAL DETENTION HEADQUARTERS, 427 West Street, NEW YORK CITY, N. Y., Respondent.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

March 22, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frances Kahn, New York City, for petitioner.

Robert M. Morgenthau, U. S. Atty. for Southern Dist. of New York, New York City, Charles J. Fanning, New York City, of counsel, for respondent.


WEINFELD, District Judge.

This application for a writ of habeas corpus, which does not challenge the lawfulness of petitioner's detention but seeks only his transfer to another Federal facility on the ground that he is being mistreated at his present place of confinement, is denied.

The place of detention of petitioner is within the sole discretion of the Attorney General and the Bureau of Prisons.1 Moreover, without deciding whether...

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