Charles FURGUIEL, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Michael L. BENOV, Warden, Respondent-Appellee

LAY, Circuit Judge:

Charles Furguiel, a federal prisoner, filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus to challenge the Bureau of Prisons’ (“BOP”) decision to deny him a sentence reduction under 18 U.S.C. § 3621(e)(2)(B). The district court denied the petition. We affirm.

I. Background

Section 3621(e)(2)(B) permits the BOP to reduce the sentence of a prisoner convicted of a nonviolent offense by up to one year, if the prisoner successfully completes a designated drug treatment program. 1 Furguiel is serving a forty-eight-month sentence for a 1994 conviction for using the U.S. Mail to distribute…