Castro v. Andrews
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM **
Hernán O’Ryan Castro appeals pro se from the district court’s judgment denying his 28 U.S.C. § 2241 petition. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2253. We review de novo the denial of a § 2241 petition, see Taylor v. Sawyer, 284 F.3d 1143, 1147 (9th Cir.2002), and we affirm.
Castro contends that the Bureau of Prisons’ (“BOP”) procedures for calculating good-time credit misinterpret federal statute 18 U.S.C. § 3624(b). Specifically, he contends that his good-time credit should be calculated based on the length of sentence imposed, rather than the time of sentence served.…
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