Legal Opinion
Yancey Lamarr White v. Joseph Scibana
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 2, 2004No. 04-2410PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SYKES, Circuit Judge.
This appeal presents a question of statutory interpretation involving the calculation of “good-time credit” for prisoners serving federal sentences. Under the good-time statute, an eligible prisoner may receive credit “beyond the time served, of up to 54 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 Bureau of Prisons’ determination that “during that year, the prisoner has displayed exemplary compliance with institutional disciplinary regulations.” 18 U.S.C. § 3624(b)(1). Yancey…
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