MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

LAURIE SMITH CAMP, Senior District Judge.

This matter is before the Court on the Defendant's Motion for Award of Good Time Under 28 USC § 2241, ECF No. 148.

The Defendant notes that the First Step Act, Pub. L. No. 115-391, 132 Stat. 5194 (2018), at Section 102(b), amends 18 U.S.C. § 3624 to provide a more liberal good time calculation for federal inmates. He asks this Court to order the Bureau of Prisons to recalculate his sentence and give him the benefit of the more liberal good time calculation without awaiting the Risk and Needs Assessment of the Attorney General, described in Section 102(a) of the First Step Act.

The Defendant cites to Matheny v. Morrison, 307 F.3d 709 (8th Cir. 2002), for the proposition that this Court's jurisdiction is properly invoked under 28 U.S.C. § 2241.

In Matheny, the Circuit Court stated: "A petitioner may attack the execution of his sentence through § 2241 in the district court where he is incarcerated; a challenge to the validity of the sentence itself must be brought under § 2255 in the district of the sentencing court." Id. at 711 (citing Bell v. United States, 48 F.3d 1042, 1043 (8th Cir. 1995)).

Defendant's action is one challenging the execution of his sentence and not the validity of the sentence itself. The caption on his pleading suggests that he intended to bring the action in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, and the envelope in which his pleading was mailed indicates that he is incarcerated within that district. ECF No. 148, Page ID 508. Yet the pleading was mailed to this district court. Id.

The Defendant's Motion was misfiled in this Court, and it will be denied without prejudice.

IT IS ORDERED: