Perez-Olivo v. Chavez.U.S. Appeals Court GOOD TIME CREDIT Perez-Olivo v. Chavez, 394 F.3d 45 (1st Cir. 2005). A federal prisoner challenged the calculation of his good time credit by the federal Bureau of Prisons Noun 1. Federal Bureau of Prisons - the law enforcement agency of the Justice Department that operates a nationwide system of prisons and detention facilities to incarcerate inmates sentenced to imprisonment for federal crimes BoP (BOP). The district court denied the petition and the prisoner appealed. The appeals court affirmed, finding that Congress implicitly delegated authority to interpret the ambiguous phrase "term of imprisonment Imprisonment See also Isolation. Alcatraz Island former federal maximum security penitentiary, near San Francisco; “escapeproof.” [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 218] Altmark, the German prison ship in World War II. [Br. Hist. " to the BOP and that the prisoner was not entitled to good time credit based on his entire 10-year sentence, but rather to 54 days for each full year actually served. (Metropolitan Detention Center "Metropolitan Dentention Center" refers to a series of federal detention facilities (prisons) located throughout the United States. They are run by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. , Guaynabo, Puerto Rico Guaynabo (pronounced as IPA: [ˌɡwaiˈnabo]; also known as Guaynabo City or GC) is a municipality in the northern part of Puerto Rico, located in the northern coast of the island, north of Aguas Buenas; south of ) |
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