Perez-Olivo v. Chavez.

• Position: Imprisonment - Brief Article

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 (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" to the BOP and that the prisoner was not...