What is the percentage of the sentence does the inmate have to serve 65% or 85%?

If this is federal as posted, then the actual Good Conduct Time credited to a high school graduate or GED pursuer who stays out of trouble is about...

This requires permission to transfer supervision, from both sending and receiving court. The Probation Office in Kentucky would do a home visit if...

Federal sentences can be reduced by up to 15 percent by law. In reality, because the BOP calculates on actual days served instead of the sentences...

If the bill is passed how can the changes to the sentencing reform and correction act benefit a federal inmate?

It is impossible to guess whether Congress will actually pass reform measures, and if so, how they might amend the bill now before Congress. It is...

My boyfriend is being detained until he sees a fed judge jan 2nd for a stolen gun charge the atf picked up. What can i expect?

Possessing a stolen firearm while on probation and facing other charges of shooting into a dwelling . . . there is why the US Government is taking...

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Is it true that crimes are financial transactions? Is it true that an indictment creates a bond handled by the prosecutor?

This sounds like a nugget from the Sovereign Citizens crowd. As others emphasize, but none of us can emphasize enough: trust your lawyer, not the...

What is the usual consequence for first dirty urine on federal probation? I have 3 yrs supervised release after serving out .

You might not be allowed to just serve out. Federal sentences don't "flatten" like I hear in State court questions. Those three years of...

HOW DO YOU FIGHT AGAINST THE 5K.1 RULE IF THE WITNESS RECANTED THEIR STORY BUT YOU WERE STILL SENTENCED TO 20 YRS FOR THIER STAT

There are a LOT of questions raised in your question. All need to be answered privately, with a lawyer who knows federal post-conviction matters...

My son what to know if he is eligible for the second chance act?

The Second Chance Act allows up to 12 months at a "Residential Re-entry Center," the halfway house. Before that, it was six months. The last ten...

Federal sentences served -- for those with high school diplomas or working on a GED -- are 87 percent of what is rendered, if the inmate stays out...