--- title: "Carmona v. U.S. Bureau of Prisons" citation: "243 F.3d 629 (2d Cir. 2001)" authority_id: "AUTH-CA2-CARMONA-243-F3D-629" authority_type: "case" jurisdiction: "federal_second_circuit" precedential_status: "binding_in_ca2" url: "https://jason93.com/legal/federal-process/authorities/AUTH-CA2-CARMONA-243-F3D-629/" legal_review: "2026-08-25" links_checked: "2026-10-15" links_available: 1 links_checked_count: 1 license: "CC BY 4.0" --- # Carmona v. U.S. Bureau of Prisons ## Holdings used - Federal prisoners ordinarily must exhaust before § 2241 review; a closed administrative path caused by procedural default bars review absent cause and prejudice. ## Material limitation Binding only in the Second Circuit and only for the bounded procedural postures in the linked claims. The original 2001 opinion was not located in the current official Second Circuit archive. The full published opinion text—not Justia's optional summary—was reviewed in the public reporter mirror. A comprehensive commercial citator was not run. ## Official source and pinpoints 243 F.3d 629 (2d Cir. 2001), 243 F.3d 633–34: ## Linked claims - `CLM-CIR2-001` ## Used in - [Second Circuit Overlay](https://jason93.com/legal/federal-process/modules/95-circuit-overlays/second-circuit.md)