ORDER DENYING DEFENDANT’S MOTION TO TERMINATE SUPERVISED RELEASE FOR LACK OF JURISDICTION

Defendant Stephen Jeffrey Regen (“Re-gen”) is the subject of a petition filed by the United States Probation Office alleging that Regen has violated the conditions of his supervised release. Regen moves to dismiss the petition and terminate his supervised release on the grounds that the term of his supervision had expired before the issuance of the summons requiring him to show cause why his supervision should not be revoked. Therefore, according to Regen, this Court lacks jurisdiction to consider the pending petition for revocation of supervision.

For the reasons set forth below, the Court concludes that it does have jurisdiction and DENIES Regen’s Motion to Terminate Supervision.

FACTS

On September 17, 2001, Regen pled guilty to a four-count indictment charging him with two counts of bankruptcy fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 152 (3); one count of impersonating a federal officer or employee, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 912 ; and one count of forging a judge’s signature, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 505 . The indictment also cited 18 U.S.C. § 3147 and alleged that at the time Regen committed the offense described in each count, he was released under Title 18, United States Code, Chapter 207, in United States v. Regen, SA CR 99-92(A)-DOC.

On February 1, 2002, at the hearing on Regen’s sentencing, this Court committed defendant “to the custody of the Bureau of Prisons [“BOP”] to be imprisoned for a term of twelve (12) months.” This Court further ordered that “[s]ix of these months are for the underlying conduct and shall be served concurrently with the [46-month] sentence imposed by Judge Carter ... in SA CR 99-92-DOC. A consecutive sentence of six months is for committing the offense while on pretrial supervision and shall be served consecutively .... ” This Court further ordered that, “[u]pon release from imprisonment, the defendant shall be placed on supervised release for a term of three (3) years.” Thus, Regen received a combined 52-month term of imprisonment, which was deemed to have commenced when he was arrested and taken into custody on July 22, 2001.

On May 12, 2004, the BOP transferred Regen from Federal Correctional Institution Talladega, where he was then incarcerated, to Vinewood Re-Entry, a community corrections center (“Vinewood”). Vinewood is under contract with the BOP to operate community corrections centers on behalf of the BOP. It houses federal offenders both as a term of their incarceration and as a condition of their supervised release. On November 5, 2004, Regen was released from Vinewood and the custody of the BOP. For the reasons explained below, it was on this date that he commenced serving his terms of supervised release in this case and in case number SA CR 99-92(A)-DOC.

On June 2, 2007, Regen purchased an eighth of an ounce of rock cocaine for himself and a quarter ounce of rock cocaine for a friend. After purchasing these narcotics, Regen drove away in his vehicle. Los Angeles Police Department officers attempted to pull him over. After a short pursuit, the officers arrested him. Regen was charged with violating Section 664-11350 of the California Health & Safety Code and Section 2800.1 of the California Vehicle Code (People v. Regen, Case No. LA 055985, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court.)

On October 4, 2007, a United States Probation Officer presented a sworn petition for revocation of Regen’s supervision, based on his June 2, 2007 attempt to possess rock cocaine and attempt to evade arrest. On October 12, 2007, the Court issued a summons requiring Regen to show cause why his supervision should not be revoked based on the allegations in the sworn petition. The issue now is whether the Court has jurisdiction to consider the petition.

DISCUSSION

A. The Parties’ Contentions

Regen asserts that his three-year supervision period began on May 12, 2004, when the BOP transferred him from FCI Tal-ladega to Vinewood. Relying on United States v. Sullivan, 504 F.3d 969 (9th Cir. 2007), Regen argues that community confinement is not incarceration or imprisonment and therefore, his three-year term of supervised release began on May 12, 2004. According to Regen, it follows that his supervised release term ended three years later, on May 11, 2007, before the cocaine purchase occurred and before the summons was issued requiring him to answer the alleged violations of supervised release.

The government argues that Regen’s confinement at Vinewood was part of the sentence of imprisonment that this Court imposed, during which defendant remained under the control of the BOP. According to the government, therefore, Regen’s three-year term of supervised release did not commence until November 5, 2004, when he was released to the community to be supervised by a probation officer, and did not expire until midnight on November 4, 2007. Because the summons regarding the instant petition for revocation issued on October 12, 2007, the government logically concludes that this Court does have jurisdiction to consider whether Regen violated the terms of his supervised release. See 18 U.S.C. § 3583©.

B. Analysis

1. Statutory Scheme

Section 3621 of Title 18, United States Code, provides as follows:

18 U.S.C. § 3621 . Under this statute, the BOP has considerable discretion in selecting a facility for service of a term of imprisonment. See 18 U.S.C. § 3621 (b) (“The Bureau may designate any available penal or correctional facility ... ”). The BOP’s authority is made explicit — and the effect of such a placement is clearly stated — in subsections (c) and (e) of Section 3624 of Title 18, United States Code, which provide as follows:

18 U.S.C. § 3624 (emphasis added).

Here, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3624 (c) Regen was transferred to Vinewood, a community corrections center contracted to the BOP. As set forth in the first sentence of that section, this confinement was the pre-release component of Regen’s term of imprisonment. It was not a part of his supervised release.

This conclusion may seem at odds with Sullivan , which noted that “the features and goals of Pre-Release Centers in Montana ... are different from imprisonment and instead are much more similar to those of federal supervised release.” The Sullivan decision went on to quote the Supreme Court: “Supervised release fulfills rehabilitative ends, distinct from those served by incarceration ... [T]he primary goal (of supervised release) is to ease the defendant’s transition into the community .... ” Sullivan, 504 F.3d at 972 (citing United States v. Johnson, 529 U.S. 53, 59 , 120 S.Ct. 1114 , 146 L.Ed.2d 39 (2000)). But although Regen’s confinement at Vine-wood was in part designed to accomplish such a transition, he was not on supervised release while he was there. Although it is true that pre-release programs and supervised release share the same goals of easing a prisoner’s re-entry into the community, pre-release programs occur within the confínes of “imprisonment” under 18 U.S.C. § 3624 (a) and (c) before “release” under 18 U.S.C. § 3621 (e). The next section of this order explains why.

2. Sullivan and Other Decisions

In Sullivan , the defendant had been serving a federal sentence concurrently with two Montana state sentences and (although it is not clear from the opinion) he apparently had completed his federal sentence of imprisonment before completing his state sentences. In any event, Sullivan was transferred from a state prison to a state pre-release center, where he spent approximately six months. After he was released from the Montana pre-release center he failed a drug test and was sentenced to 12 additional months in federal prison for having violated supervised release. On appeal he challenged the district court’s jurisdiction, arguing that his custody in the state pre-release center should be included as part of his federal supervised release, and therefore that the term of such release had expired. In determining when Sullivan’s federal supervised release began, the Ninth Circuit focused on whether Sullivan’s detention in the Montana Pre-release Center was “imprisonment” under 18 U.S.C. § 3624 (e). That section provides that “[t]he term of supervised release commences on the day the person is released from imprisonment .... ” Sullivan did not consider the applicability of 18 U.S.C. § 3624 (c) because Sullivan was in a state, not federal, pre-re-lease program.

What compels the conclusion here that Regen’s confinement in Vinewood was still part of his term of federal imprisonment is that, unlike in Sullivan , it was a form of detention that was “subject to the control of the Bureau of Prisons ....” {Sullivan at 971 ). Indeed, had Regen violated any of the conditions of the program at Vine-wood, the BOP could have exercised its discretion to transfer him back to a tradi tional prison setting at any time so long as it made an individualized placement assessment pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3621 (b). See Rivera v. Clark, No. C 07-2420 CW, slip op., 2008 WL 340653 at *5 (N.D.Cal. Feb. 5, 2008). In contrast, a person on supervision who violates a condition of supervision answers to the probation office and to the sentencing court. See 18 U.S.C. § 3583 (e); Fed.R.Crim.P. 32.1. As Judge Wilken aptly explained in Rivera ,

In United States v. Miller, a case almost identical to this one, the court reached the same conclusion as I do. There, the. defendant moved to dismiss a revocation petition on the basis that the court lacked jurisdiction because the term of supervised release had expired. United States v. Miller, slip op., 2007 WL 4261929 at *1 (D.Idaho, Nov.30, 2007). Defendant’s motion was premised on his contention that supervised release began when he was placed in pre-release custody by the Bureau of Prisons, not when he was released from that program. Id. In a carefully written opinion, Judge Winmill correctly explained that,

Id. at *3.

Judge Winmill went on to point out that

Id. at *4.

18 U.S.C. § 3621 (a) requires a defendant to remain in BOP custody “until the expiration of the term imposed.” Here, if the BOP released Regen from imprisonment when it transferred him to Vinewood on May 12, 2004, then the BOP would have violated that section by releasing him after he had served only 46 months of his 52-month aggregate sentence. Likewise, if the BOP had released Regen from imprisonment when it transferred him to Vine-wood on May 12, 2007, it would have failed to carry out what this Court clearly contemplated when it imposed the sentence: that Regan would serve a term of imprisonment beyond the 46-month term of imprisonment Judge Carter had imposed.

For all these reasons, Regen’s term of supervision commenced when he was released from BOP custody upon the conclusion of his confinement at Vinewood, i.e., November 5, 2004, not when the BOP transferred him to Vinewood on May 12, 2004. Accordingly, Regen’s three-year term of supervised release did not expire until midnight, November 4, 2007. Therefore, the October 12, 2007 summons, which was based on the allegations in the instant Petition for Revocation executed under penalty of perjury on October 4, 2007, was issued before the expiration of Regen’s term of supervision.

CONCLUSION

For the reasons discussed above, this Court has jurisdiction to adjudicate the petition. Accordingly, Regen’s Motion to Terminate Supervision for Lack of Jurisdiction is DENIED.

IT IS SO ORDERED.

. At the time defendant committed the underlying crimes for which this Court sentenced him, he had pled guilty to and was awaiting sentencing on count 35 of a 60-count first superseding indictment in another case. United States v. Ronald Henry Michel et al., SA CR 99-92(A)-DOC, in which five defendants were charged with mail fraud, wire fraud and money laundering. On January 7, 2002, approximately one month before this Court sentenced him, Regen was sentenced by Judge Carter in that case to a term of 46 months in the custody of the BOP, to be followed by a five-year term of supervised release. Defendant had also pled guilty to and was awaiting sentencing on an information charging him with one count of making a false statement to a financial institution in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1014 , in United States v. Regen, SA CR99-92(B)-DOC. . The government has represented that separate revocation proceedings will be initiated in case number SA CR 99-92(A)-DOC. . In his appellate brief Sullivan stated that, after discharging his federal sentence, he was released on state parole. Opening Brief of Defendant-Appellant at 3, United States v. Sullivan, 504 F.3d 969 (9th Cir.2007). . Judge Winmill cited several cases. As he pointed out, for example, Reno v. Koray, 515 U.S. 50, 115 S.Ct. 2021 , 132 L.Ed.2d 46 (1995) merely construed 18 U.S.C. § 3585 (b) concerning credit for prior custody, and determined that a defendant's pre-sentencing confinement in a community treatment center while released on bail could not be credited toward the sentence imposed because it did not constitute “official detention.’’ See also Tanner v. Sivley, 76 F.3d 302 (9th Cir.1996) (finding that the dispositive issue was whether defendant was under the control of the BOP during confinement at the community treatment center). In United States v. Latimer, 991 F.2d 1509 (9th Cir.1993), the Ninth Circuit found that confinement in a community treatment center was not "incarceration” within the meaning of the Sentencing Guidelines; it did not construe the statutes applicable here.