OMAHA — A federal inmate is asking President Bush for clemency so he can be with his daughter, who’s dying of brain cancer in Lincoln.

Jason Yaeger is in a federal prison in Yankton, S.D., serving four years on methamphetamine charges. He’s scheduled to be released next year.

But that may be too late for 10-year-old Jayci, who is too weak to respond when her father talks to her on the phone.

Yaeger says he’s not trying to get out of his sentence. He says the request for clemency is a last resort after the warden refused to move him to a Council Bluffs halfway house, as well as Yaeger’s request for a furlough.

He’s also filed a court injunction, asking for an immediate transfer to the halfway house, where he’s scheduled to be transferred in August.