Legal Opinion
White v. Scibana
District Court, W.D. Wisconsin
Decided April 23, 2004No. 03-C-581-CPublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
CRABB, Chief Judge.
Under 18 U.S.C. § 3624(b), a federal prisoner may earn up to 54 days of good conduct time for every year of his “term of imprisonment.” The question presented in this petition for a writ of habeas corpus is one of first impression in this circuit: whether § 3624(b) requires the Bureau of Prisons to calculate an inmate’s good conduct time on the basis of the inmate’s sentence rather than on the time he has actually served. In an order dated December 22, 2003, I concluded that petitioner Yancey White had raised a substantial question about the bureau’s method…
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3Cited by11 opinions
- David Yi v. Federal Bureau of Prisons Vanessa P. Adams, Warden of Fci-Petersburg, the Office of the Federal Public Defender, Amicus SupportingCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 2005
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