US · guidance
BOP Program Statement 5331.02 § 11
LENGTH OF SENTENCE
Following completion of Transitional Drug Abuse Treatment (TDAT), inmates found to be
eligible for an early release under 18 U.S.C. § 3621(e) may receive that early release based upon
the length of their sentence, as detailed in the table below.
Sentence Length Early Release Time-Frame
30 MONTHS or LESS No more than 6 months
31-36 MONTHS No more than 9 months
37 MONTHS OR MORE No more than 12 months
The early release time-frame reductions shown on the table are not pro-rated by days. For
example, if an inmate’s sentence is 36 months and any number of days, 9 months is the
maximum sentence reduction allowed, whether the inmate’s sentence is 36 months and 0 days, or
36 months and 30 days.
Any change in current offense sentence length as imposed by order of the Court will result in a
recalculation of sentence computation and provisional incentive. For example, a 36-month
sentence reduced to a 24-month sentence will result in no more than a 6-month early release.
History
PS 5331.02 dated 2009-03-16
Provenance
- Source
- bop.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-20
- Edition
- bop-ps-2026-09-20
- Content hash
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