Jackson v. Ashcroft.

• Position: GOOD TIME - Brief Article

U.S. District Court

GOOD TIME CREDIT

Jackson v. Ashcroft, 347 F.Supp.2d 924 (D.Or. 2004). A federal prisoner petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus, challenging the federal Bureau of Prisons' (BOP) computation of his good-time credits. The district court denied the petition, finding that the BOP regulation that used the amount of time actually served by the prisoner as the basis for prorating good-time credits...