Tezak

MEMORANDUM **

Robert J. Tezak appeals the district court’s denial of his 28 U.S.C. § 2241 habe-as corpus petition challenging the Bureau of Prison’s denial of his request for credit for completing the drug rehabilitation program provided for in 18 U.S.C. § 3621 (e). We affirm.

The critical question in this case is whether Tezak had a “settled expectation of legitimate eligibility for early release under § 3621(e)(2)(B).” Furguiel v. Be-nov, 155 F.3d 1046, 1049 (9th Cir.1998). Tezak claims that he relied on the language of § 3621(e) as well as the oral advice of the prison’s drug abuse program coordinator, before he entered the treatment program, that he would be eligible for a sentence reduction for participating in it. However, as the district court correctly observed, there is no evidence of this notification in the record. Indeed, the record evidence is to the contrary. The government tendered uncontested evidence that the prison’s drug treatment specialist had determined specifically that Tezak was not eligible, and that the prison’s drug abuse program coordinator so advised Tezak. Thus, Tezak’s circumstance is the same as the petitioner in Furguiel , and he is not entitled…