We are all familiar with nightmare stories of Americans rotting in foreign jails. Fortunately, it doesn’t always have to be that way. The United States is a party to a number of prisoner transfer treaties that allow Americans to be transferred back to the United States to serve their sentences.
Alan Ellis
Alan Ellis is a criminal defense lawyer with offices in San Francisco and New York, with more than 50 years of experience as a practicing lawyer, law professor and federal law clerk. He is a nationally recognized authority in the fields of federal sentencing, prison matters, appeals, habeas corpus 2255 motions and international prisoner transfer treaties.
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