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Drug Tampering Conviction Bars BOP Good Time Award

Loaded on Aug. 15, 2008

Filed under: Sentencing, Good Time, Drug Treatment/Rehab. Location: West Virginia.

Tampering with a consumer product with reckless disregard for risk of death or bodily harm could reasonably be determined to be a "crime of violence" precluding early release for completion of a drug rehabilitation program. The petitioner so precluded from the benefits of a drug program is a former registered ...

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