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7th Circuit Sides with BOP's Interpretation of Good Time Statute

By Tom Lincoln

In White v. Scibana, No. 04-2410 (7th Cir. Dec. 2, 2004) the Seventh Circuit reversed the District Court's opinion in White v. Scibana, 314 F. Supp. 2d 834 (W.D. Wis. 2004) which had interpreted 18 U.S.C. § 3624(b)(1) - the "good time" statute - as meaning that a prisoner should get 54 days of good time for each year of the sentence imposed, minus any deductions for disciplinary violations.  The Bureau of Prisons interprets the good time statute as allowing an award of up to fifty-four days of credit for each year the inmate actually serves in prison. The term an inmate actually serves is not the term imposed by the court but something less; annual good-time awards operate to incrementally reduce the term of imprisonment imposed in the sentence...continue to full post

Full post as published by Puerto Rico Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers on December 03, 2004 (boomark / email).