How does “Good Timing” work when serving jail time?

In the federal system, prisoners sentenced to a year-and-a-day or more (but less than life) serve 87.1 percent of the sentence imposed (subject to...

How many times can a person be locked up to receive good time?

Respectfully, this question is unclear. It appears as though your husband served time at a federal facility in Wisconsin, was released and then,...

Experience suggests that absent a court-ordered sentence reduction (for example, successful appeal, Rule 35 relief, grant of a 2255 motion),...

Federal prisoners sentenced to a year-and-a-day or more (but less than life) serve 87.1 percent of the sentence imposed. In other words, if one...

Time credit calculation questions tend to be very fact-specific. As a general matter, federal inmates serve 87.1 percent of the sentence imposed...

If an individual is out on federal probation/parole, they catch another charge while on probation/parole how long to violate?

Left unstated in your inquiry is when the supervising officer/authority filed a violation notice related to the state case (e.g., contemporaneous...

My boyfriends release date is 11/19/18 when will he be released from Federal prison?

Attorney Hurst is correct that home confinement, as part of pre-release placement, is limited to the final ten percent of an inmate's sentence not...

HHow long will a 2 year sentence do if it federal

In Barber v. Thomas, the United States Supreme Court affirmed the Bureau of Prisons' good time calculation formula, by which federal prisoners...