Juanita Bryant v. Warden, Metropolitan Correctional Center of New York City and United States Parole Commission

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:

Lost time, said Benjamin Franklin, is never found again. 1 Nonetheless, we are compelled today to deny relief to a prisoner who, due to an error by the United States Parole Commission, served almost ten months additional time on a parole violator term. In so doing, we reject the appellee’s claim that she should be allowed to “bank” the extra months, then draw on the “banked” time to offset punishment imposed for a subsequent parole violation.

I. BACKGROUND

This appeal stems from a series of federal parole violations. In 1973, appellee Juanita Bryant was…