Traficant can come here in March or stay in prison

YOUNGSTOWN — The federal Bureau of Prisons, not inmate James A. Traficant Jr., decides where he goes to transition back into society.

The ex-congressman, through his case worker at the Federal Medical Center in Rochester, Minn., requested placement at a halfway facility in Akron or Cleveland instead of Community Corrections Association on Market Street, said Richard J. Billak, CCA chief executive officer. Traficant said he would not feel safe at CCA because Billak testified at Traficant’s racketeering trial in 2002.

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