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BOP Sentence Reductions Cannot Be Denied Retroactively
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1997, page 14
The court of appeals for the ninth circuit held that a Bureau of Prisons (BOP) policy which created a new definition of "non-violent" offense could not be applied retroactively to deny a one-year sentence reduction to prisoners who had successfully completed a substance abuse program. 18 U.S.C. § 3621(e)(2)(B) allows …
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