Francisco Pacheco-Camacho v. Robert Hood, Warden, Federal Correctional Institution, Sheridan Oregon

KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge:

Francisco Pacheco-Camacho was an exemplary prisoner. Serving his sentence of a year and a day, he earned the maximum number of good time credits permissible under federal law. Pacheco says that number is fifty-four days, but Bureau of Prisons (BOP) regulations allow him only forty-seven. This appeal is about the disputed seven days. 1

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A federal prisoner may receive “up to fifty-four days at the end of each year of the prisoner’s term of imprisonment, beginning at the end of the first year of the term,” subject to the BOP’s determination that “during that year, the…