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| Jailed former judge sues for right to enter boot camp |
| By Minneapolis Star Tribune |
| Published: 12/29/2003 |
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Roland Amundson, prison inmate and former state Appeals Court judge, is suing Minnesota's commissioner of corrections because he isn't being allowed to join a prison boot camp program that could have cut his sentence by more than half. Amundson, 54, was deemed eligible for the program shortly after he was sentenced last year for stealing more than $300,000 from a mentally disabled woman whose trust he oversaw. Participating in the boot camp, in which most inmates are half his age, could have allowed him to get out of prison this month instead of his supervised-release date of April 2006. Corrections Commissioner Joan Fabian put a stop to it in June, responding to protests by a judge and a prosecutor. Amundson's suit claims that Fabian is treating him differently than other inmates. It contends that she reversed the Corrections Department's approval "simply because of his former position as a Minnesota Court of Appeals judge" and because of pressure from the judge who sentenced him. The suit, which was filed Dec. 23 in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, claims that Amundson is the first prisoner since the boot camp opened more than 10 years ago to be approved for participation and then to have that permission rescinded by the commissioner. Department of Corrections spokeswoman Shari Burt said that the department wasn't aware of the suit and that it doesn't comment on pending litigation. |
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