Bolanos

1 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 5 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 7 GAYLENE L. BOLANOS, Case No. 20-cv-03825-WHO (PR)

Petitioner, 8

ORDER OF DISMISSAL

v. 9

10 JENKINS, Respondent. 11

12 13 INTRODUCTION 14 Federal prisoner Gaylene L. Bolanos seeks release under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 from 15 FCI-Dublin because she believes she is at high risk of contracting COVID-19 under her 16 current conditions of confinement. Bolanos’s claims cannot proceed through a § 2241 17 action. She must raise her compassionate release request in her criminal case in the 18 Eastern District of California, where she was sentenced. Her conditions of confinement 19 claims must be raised through a civil rights action, not through a habeas action.1 20 Accordingly, this federal habeas corpus action is DISMISSED without prejudice. 21 BACKGROUND 22 According to the petition, Bolanos is a 63-year-old female with various ailments 23 (e.g., a heart-valve defect and high blood pressure) and is currently held at FCI-Dublin. 24 In 2015, she was convicted in the United…