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Federal sentences come with a maximum of 54 days per year [1] of good time credit, and there is no parole when serving federal time. This all but guarantees tha

Federal sentences come with a maximum of 54 days per year [1] of good time credit, and there is no parole when serving federal time. This all but guarantees that a 10 year sentence will result in 102 months of incarceration and release no earlier than that. [1] https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/02/11/2022-02876/good-conduct-time-credit-under-the-first-step-act https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/02/11/2022-02...

dragonwriter 4y ago
> Federal sentences come with a maximum of 54 days per year [1] of good time credit, and there is no parole when serving federal time. Right, to the extent a federal convict has supervised release time, its not “I got out early from my prison sentence” but “I was sentenced to supervised release on top of my prison sentence.”
A_D_E_P_T 4y ago
Look up the recent case of Aaron Singerman. He was sentenced to five years, but was out in ten months. Didn't spend a single Christmas behind bars. Now, this was presumably for some form of cooperation, and the circumstances are unclear -- but it's just not true that the Feds won't let you out early if they feel like it.
- fsckboy 4y ago
  how could you suspect there would be jailhouse cooperation from a guy they call Singerman? (for non-native English speakers, giving information to the police is called "singing" in early/mid-20th century slang)
- dragonwriter 4y ago
  > Look up the recent case of Aaron Singerman. He was sentenced to five years, but was out in ten months. Didn't spend a single Christmas behind bars. Now, this was presumably for some form of cooperation, and the circumstances are unclear -- but it's just not true that the Feds won't let you out early if they feel like it. His sentence was reduced to 36 months in a court action that was publicly reported, and there were several subsequent sealed actions between then and the release. > but it's just not true that the Feds won't let you out early if they feel like it. A reduction in sentence is a very different thing than early release.

dragonwriter 4y ago

> Federal sentences come with a maximum of 54 days per year [1] of good time credit, and there is no parole when serving federal time. Right, to the extent a federal convict has supervised release time, its not “I got out early from my prison sentence” but “I was sentenced to supervised release on top of my prison sentence.”

A_D_E_P_T 4y ago

Look up the recent case of Aaron Singerman. He was sentenced to five years, but was out in ten months. Didn't spend a single Christmas behind bars. Now, this was presumably for some form of cooperation, and the circumstances are unclear -- but it's just not true that the Feds won't let you out early if they feel like it.

fsckboy 4y ago
how could you suspect there would be jailhouse cooperation from a guy they call Singerman? (for non-native English speakers, giving information to the police is called "singing" in early/mid-20th century slang)
dragonwriter 4y ago
> Look up the recent case of Aaron Singerman. He was sentenced to five years, but was out in ten months. Didn't spend a single Christmas behind bars. Now, this was presumably for some form of cooperation, and the circumstances are unclear -- but it's just not true that the Feds won't let you out early if they feel like it. His sentence was reduced to 36 months in a court action that was publicly reported, and there were several subsequent sealed actions between then and the release. > but it's just not true that the Feds won't let you out early if they feel like it. A reduction in sentence is a very different thing than early release.