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BOP Exceeds Statutory Authority in Denying Sentence Reductions

Loaded on Jan. 15, 1999 published in Prison Legal News January, 1999, page 9
Filed under: Good Time, U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, Mental Health, Drug Treatment/Rehab. Locations: Maryland, Oklahoma.
Afederal district court in the District of Columbia held that the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) had exceeded its statutory authority by defining "violent" offenses to preclude a sentence reduction for convictions the courts have consistently defined as "non-violent." In 1994 congress enacted 18 U.S.C. § 3621(e)(2)B) which states: "The period ...

 

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