How calculate the amount of prison time that must be served after being sentenced.
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How calculate the amount of prison time that must be served after being sentenced by a federal judge.
You will serve almost all of your sentence. There is no such thing as parole in the federal system for all crimes committed after November 1, 1987. If your sentence is longer than one year, you might qualify for a small reduction for “good time” which is earned at the rate of 54 days for every year of the sentence. Although the statute that governs good conduct time, 18 U.S.C. § 3624(b), states that prisoners may earn up to 54 days per year, the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) awards a maximum of 47 days for each year of the sentence imposed.
In addition, you may spend the last 10 % of your sentence, up to 6 months, in a community corrections center, or “half-way house.” The recently passed Second Chance Act requires the BOP to issue regulations allowing prisoners to be placed in community corrections centers for up to twelve months, but the BOP has not yet issued such regulations. Not all inmates are eligible for half-way house. For example, those with immigration or other types of detainers are ineligible, as are sex offenders.
Time calculation is complicated. You will generally receive credit for every day you spend in “official detention” after the offense for which you were convicted as long as those days were not credited toward another sentence. Unfortunately, the definition of “official detention” is not always clear. For example, time in a halfway house or in home confinement is not counted. The basic rule is in section 3585(b) of title 18 of the United States Code, but this is an important issue to discuss with your defense attorney because it is so complicated. In some instances, an attorney may be able to persuade a court to adjust the federal sentence to account for any potential discrepancies between the credits that the Bureau of Prisons will count, on the one hand, and the time the judge thinks should count on the other.
If you were in state custody and were brought into federal custody pursuant to a “writ of habeas corpus ad prosequendum,” the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) will generally only give you credits against your federal sentence if you did not receive state custody credits. But if you were in state custody and the state dropped charges in favor of a federal prosecution, you will probably receive credits against your federal sentence even for the time you spent in state custody before the federal charges were filed as long as that time in custody occurred after the offense for which you were convicted federally and as long as you did not receive credit in the state against another state sentence.
Time spent in immigration custody may or may not be considered “official detention.” It is important to discuss this issue with your individual attorney so he or she may attempt to work out a resolution that will result in the time being credited.
The initial appearance in magistrate court is not, ultimately, determinative of how your time is counted. What is important is the question whether you were in “official detention.”
Usually you will get credit for all of the time you have been in custody while facing a federal charge. There is an exception when you are serving another sentence either in state or federal prison. For example, if you were in state custody and were brought into federal custody pursuant to a “writ of habeas corpus ad prosequendum,” then the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) will generally only give you credits against your federal sentence if you did not receive state custody credits. But if you were in state custody and the state dropped charges in favor of a federal prosecution, you will probably receive credits against your federal sentence even for the time you spent in state custody before the federal charges were filed as long as that time in custody occurred after the offense for which you were convicted federally and you did not receive credit in the state against another state sentence. Because this issue is so complicated, it is important to discuss any possible credits issues with your attorney before you are sentenced.
In some instances, an attorney may be able to persuade a court to adjust the federal sentence to account for any potential discrepancies between the credits that the Bureau of Prisons will count, on the one hand, and the time the judge thinks should count on the other.
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