WHITE v. SCIBANA

No. 04-2410.

390 F.3d 997 (2004)

Yancey Lamarr WHITE, Petitioner-Appellee, v. Joseph SCIBANA, Respondent-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided December 2, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Emily M. Feinstein (argued), Quarles & Brady, Madison, WI, for Petitioner-Appellee.

Steven Pray O'Connor (argued), Office of the United States Attorney, Madison, WI, for Respondent-Appellant.

Before EASTERBROOK, EVANS and SYKES, Circuit Judges.


SYKES, Circuit Judge.

This appeal presents a question of statutory interpretation involving the calculation of "good-time credit" for prisoners serving federal sentences. Under the good-time statute, an eligible prisoner may receive credit "beyond the time served, of up to 54 days at the end of each year of the prisoner's term of imprisonment, beginning at the end of the first year of the term," subject to the Bureau of Prisons' determination that "during that year...

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