Bolanos

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 GAYLENE L. BOLANOS, Case No. 20-cv-03825-WHO (PR)

Petitioner,

ORDER OF DISMISSAL

v.

JENKINS, Respondent.

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