Brewer

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 ROYLAND RICE, No. 2:21-cv-0649 CKD P Petitioner, v. ORDER AND P. THOMPSON, FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS Respondent. 16 Petitioner, a federal prisoner proceeding pro se, has filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241 and paid the filing fee. In his petition, petitioner asserts that he was punished in some respect, which is not clear, for refusing to accept deductions from his federal stimulus payment to satisfy some unspecified financial obligation. Petitioner does not challenge the fact that he is confined, nor the duration of his sentence. A § 2241 habeas corpus petition is a vehicle for a federal prisoner's challenge to the execution of his sentence. Hernandez v. Campbell, 204 F.3d 861, 864 (9th Cir. 2000). Challenges to a prisoner's conditions of confinement, however, must be brought through a civil rights action, rather than through a…