The article says that federal prisoners' "good time" sentence reductions are automatically provided up front <i>but you can lose good time and thus extend your sentence.</i> That's smart thinking, to take advantage of loss aversion, a now-well-documented psychological phenomenon in behavioral economics [0].<p>(I do the same in my law-school classes: Students automatically get an up-front "signing bonus" for attendance in points on their final-grade total, but they can lose points by exceeding stated absence thresholds [1]. It works quite well for that purpose.)<p>[0] <a href="https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/loss-psychology.asp" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/loss-psychology.asp</a><p>[1] <a href="https://toedtclassnotes.site44.com/Syllabus.html#orgdc01c7d" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://toedtclassnotes.site44.com/Syllabus.html#orgdc01c7d</a>
Nothing was reduced here. The BOP lists your estimated release date which includes good time that you have not lost.<p>You serve 85 percent of your sentence in the Feds if you don't lose goodtime. The numbers listed work out to 85% (there is a little bit of wonk in how they BOP calculates this number. It recently got changed as the BOP used math that reduced good time calculations and had to be told how to do math in the First Step act).<p><a href="https://famm.org/wp-content/uploads/faq-federal-good-time-credit.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://famm.org/wp-content/uploads/faq-federal-good-time-cr...</a><p>There have also been reductions via the First Step act but I don't know how that ended up. You got reductions for working at the Federal slave labor sweatshop (UNICOR) and for 'Programming' (taking their classes) but the BOP was fighting these pretty hard back when I was paying attention to these things a few years ago.
> Holmes, who once boasted of having $4.5 million at the height of her supposed success, now claims to have no money<p>I believe her claim was “billion” not “million.” Although I suppose the distinction is irrelevant at this stage.
> According to Holmes’ inmate information on the Bureau of Prisons’ website, the 39-year-old mother of two will be released on Dec. 29, 2032 — nine years, six months and 29 days after she checked into Federal Prison Camp Bryan on May 30.<p>> Holmes, now known as federal inmate 24965-111, was initially sentenced to 11 years and three months in the minimum-security, women-only Texas prison.<p>> A Bureau of Prison spokesperson would not comment on the specifics of Holmes’ earlier-than-expected release.<p>> “For privacy, safety and security reasons, our office does not comment on the conditions of confinement for any inmate, including release planning or release plans,” the rep told reporters on Monday.
This is why you see a lot of 1 year and 1 day sentences. Any federal sentence 1 year or less must be served 100% in full. If it’s 1 year and 1 day it’s eligible for the time reduction credit and you can serve less than 1 year.