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WOODSON v. ATTORNEY GENERAL

No. 91-5303.

990 F.2d 1344 (1993)

Helen D. WOODSON, Appellee, v. ATTORNEY GENERAL, et al., Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided April 23, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David B. Orbuch, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Jay B. Stephens, U.S. Atty. at the time the brief was filed, John D. Bates, and R. Craig Lawrence, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, DC, were on the brief, for appellants.

Helen D. Woodson pro se.

Roger D. Williams (appointed by this court), with whom Edward J. Grenier, Jr., Washington, DC, was on the brief, for amicus curiae in favor of appellee's position.

Before: HARRY T. EDWARDS, SENTELLE and KAREN LeCRAFT HENDERSON, Circuit Judges.

Opinion for the court filed by Circuit Judge HARRY T. EDWARDS.

HARRY T. EDWARDS, Circuit Judge:

The federal commutation statutes establish a scheme for the reduction of prisoners' jail terms based on accumulated "good time" credits. An eligible prisoner's sentence is reduced by ten days for each month of incarceration that the prisoner serves without bad behavior; the accumulation of these good time credits results in prisoners' gaining early release from...

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