Oji Williams v. Director, BOP Colette Peters, Warden Michael Underwood

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA OJI WILLIAMS, ) ) Petitioner, ) ) v. ) ) Civil Action No. 3:24-277 DIRECTOR, BOP COLETTE PETERS, ) Judge Nora Barry Fischer WARDEN MICHAEL UNDERWOOD, ) Magistrate Judge Keith Pesto ) Respondent. ) MEMORANDUM ORDER AND NOW, this 22nd day of January, 2026, upon consideration of the Report and Recommendation filed by United States Magistrate Judge Keith A. Pesto on May 19, 2025, (Docket No. 11), recommending that the § 2241 habeas petition filed by Petitioner Oji Williams challenging the decision that he is not entitled to earned time credits against his sentence due to the nature of his conviction be denied preservice as he is statutorily ineligible for same, and directed that objections be filed within 14 days such that objections from non-ECF users were due by June 5, 2025, and no objections having been filed as of the date of this Order, this matter having been recently reassigned to the undersigned for prompt disposition, and upon independent review of the record and de novo consideration of the Magistrate Judge’s May 19, 2025 Report and Recommendation, (Docket No. 11), IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Magistrate Judge’s May 19, 2025 Report and Recommendation is ADOPTED as the opinion of this Court, in part, as the Court agrees that Petitioner is ineligible for earned time credits. However, as the BOP Inmate Locator tool states that Petitioner was released from all forms of BOP custody as of May 27, 2025, this Petition must be dismissed, as moot, see e.g., Malik v. Warden Loretto FCI, No. 23-2281, 2024 WL 3649570, at *2 (3d Cir. Aug. 5, 2024) (“Because Malik had been released to prerelease custody, his request for release to such custody was moot. […] Regardless of whether his request for an earlier transfer to supervised release was moot at the time of the Magistrate Judge's order or simply meritless because he had already received the maximum credit allowed towards an earlier release from custody to supervised release, see § 3624(g)(3), such a request is moot now that Malik is on supervised release.”); Constantine v. United States, No. 1:23-CV-22, 2023 WL 6811999, at *2 (W.D. Pa. Aug.

28, 2023), report and recommendation adopted, No. CV 23-22, 2023 WL 6810862 (W.D. Pa. Oct.

16, 2023) (“Since the BOP released Petitioner from its custody, there is no longer any habeas relief that this Court can provide.”); IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the § 2241 Petition (Docket No. 5) is dismissed, with prejudice, as moot and no certificate of appealability shall issue, see Goodloe v. Warden Lewisburg USP, 2025 WL 342189, *1, n.1 (3d Cir. 2025) (citing Reese v. Warden Phila. FDC, 904 F.3d 244, 246 (3d Cir. 2018) (“a federal prisoner challenging the denial of a § 2241 petition, he need not obtain a certificate of appealability”); and, IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that an appropriate Judgment follows.

s/Nora Barry Fischer Nora Barry Fischer Senior U.S. District Judge cc/ecf: Magistrate Judge Keith A. Pesto cc: OJI WILLIAMS 41216-509 LORETTO FEDERAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION Inmate Mail/Parcels P.O. BOX 1000 CRESSON, PA 16630 (via first class mail)