In a 16 page posting this week, Federal Judge Douglas Woodlock explained why convicted Former Fall RIver Mayor Jasiel Correia has so far avoided a trip to FCI-Berlin in New Hampshire, where Correia is now to self-surrender on the afternoon of Friday April 22. 

Woodlock explained that Correia was not a flight risk or a danger to the community, and that he had a right to assist his Boston-based Defense Team with an appeal of his 2021 conviction, which earned him a six year term in a minimum security facility. 

Correia also conivinced the court that he was needed at his in laws upscale steak house in Fall River during the holiday season. 

Woodlock also made it known he did not want to send anyone where COVID-19 was an issue, as FCI Berlin only recently allowed prisoners to have visitors.