Barron

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA Francisco SANCHEZ VALLE, Case No.: 23-cv-1446-AGS-DEB Petitioner, ORDER DENYING HABEAS

PETITION (ECF 1)

v. Howard C. BARRON, Respondent. 8 In this 28 U.S.C. § 2241 habeas petition, petitioner seeks a prison transfer and relief from the allegedly onerous conditions of his confinement. These issues cannot be addressed through the requested writ of habeas corpus. A. Prison Transfer Petitioner Francisco Sanchez Valle is imprisoned over 1,200 miles from his primary residence in California and seeks a transfer closer to home. (Id.) He believes the First Step Act “states that I have to be less than 500 miles away from my home.” (Id. at 12.) He’s mistaken. The First Step Act does not mandate that prisoners be placed within 500 miles of their primary residence. Instead of such a bright-line rule, the Act sets forth a multi-factor analysis to ensure that inmates are placed “as close as practicable to the prisoner’s primary residence, and to the…