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Justices Approve Bureau of Prisons' Calculations for 'Good Time Credit'

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"...in a strongly worded dissent Justice Anthony Kennedy said the ruling will add "tens of thousands of years" collectively to time served, at a "cost to taxpayers of untold millions of dollars." In human terms, Kennedy added, the ruling will be "devastating to the prisoners who have behaved the best." Justices Approve Bureau of Prisons' Calculations for 'Good Time Credit' Tony Mauro The National Law Journal June 08, 2010 In a decision that affects the prison terms of nearly 200,000 inmates in federal prisons, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday adopted a formula for calculating "good time credit" for good behavior that results in more time served. The Court by a 6-3 vote endorsed a long-standing Bureau of Prisons method of calculating good time credit based on the length of time actually served, not the length of the term imposed by the sentencing judge...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 08, 2010 (boomark / email).