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Nature of Suit Code: 530
Nature of Suit: Prisoner Petitions - Habeas Corpus
Cause of Action: 28:2241 Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

JEAN CRUMP,

Petitioner,

v.

MARVIN GARDENS HALFWAY HOUSE, 

et al.,

Respondents.

Case No. 15-cv-00960-JST (PR) 

ORDER OF TRANSFER

Petitioner, a prisoner of the United States, has filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus in 

this Court under 28 U.S.C. § 2241. Petitioner is currently incarcerated at the Santa Ana Jail. She 

was formerly incarcerated at the United States Penitentiary in Victorville, California and the 

Marvin Gardens Halfway House in Los Angeles, California as a result of her conviction and 

sentence in the United States District Court for the Central District of California in 2013. She 

challenges the refusal of the Bureau of Prisons to transfer her to home detention. Petitioner has 

neither paid the filing fee, nor filed an application to proceed in forma pauperis.

A challenge to the execution of a federal sentence is properly brought in a petition for a 

writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241. See United States v. Giddings, 740 F.2d 770, 772 

(9th Cir. 1984). And it is preferably brought in the district of confinement. See Dunne v. 

Henman, 875 F.2d 244, 249 (9th Cir. 1989) (noting that even if district court has personal 

jurisdiction over custodian, preferred forum is district where petitioner is confined); see also

Rumsfeld v. Padilla, 542 U.S. 426, 443 (2004) ("[F]or core habeas petitions challenging present 

physical confinement, jurisdiction lies in only one district: the district of confinement."). 

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

Santa Ana is in Orange County, which lies in the Central District of California, Southern 

Division. See 28 U.S.C. § 84(c)(3). Therefore, the Court ORDERS that pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 

§ 1404(a), the Clerk of the Court shall TRANSFER this matter to the United States District Court 

for the Central District of California, Southern Division, forthwith. 

Finally, the Court notes that the petition contains allegation relating to petitioner's 

treatment at the Santa Ana Jail. If petitioner wishes to complain about her conditions of 

confinement, she may file a civil rights complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. See Badea v. Cox, 931 

F.2d 573, 574 (9th Cir. 1991) (civil rights action proper method of challenging conditions of 

confinement). She should file any such complaint in the United States District Court for the 

Central District of California.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: March 9, 2015

______________________________________

JON S. TIGAR

United States District Judge

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