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Supreme Court upholds method for calculating sentence reductions

[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Monday decided [opinion, PDF] 6-3 in Barber v. Thomas [Cornell LII backgrounder; JURIST report] to uphold the method used by the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) [official website] for calculating "good time" sentence reductions for federal prisoners. The Sentencing R...

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