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Bureau of Prisons Estopped from Denying Sentence Reduction
Loaded on Aug. 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
August, 1998, page 19
A federal district court in Colorado granted a habeas corpus petition reducing a federal prisoner's sentence by one year for successfully completing a drug treatment program. The court held the BOP was estopped from denying the sentence reduction having initially granted it, then denied it. In 1994 congress enacted 18 …
Filed under:
Estoppell,
Good Time,
Habeas Corpus,
Mental Health,
Drug Treatment/Rehab.
Location:
Colorado.
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