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BOP Program Statement 5880.28 § 5
DISTRIBUTION. At a minimum, a copy of this Manual will be
placed with the Regional Inmate Systems Manager, each Community
Corrections Manager, the Inmate Systems Manager and all other
staff having responsibility for sentence computation.
/s/
Kathleen Hawk Sawyer
Director
PS 5880.28
CN-7 9/20/99
Table of Contents, Page 1
CHAPTER I--SENTENCING REFORM ACT OF 1984
1. INTRODUCTION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1
2. COMMITMENT TO THE CUSTODY OF THE BUREAU OF PRISONS. . . 1-4
3. COMPUTATION OF SENTENCE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-5
a. Classification of Offenders and Terms of
Imprisonment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-8
b. Commencement (Beginning Date) of Sentence. . . . 1-12
c. Prior Custody Time Credit. . . . . . . . . . . . 1-14
d. Inoperative Time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-28
e. Multiple Sentences of Imprisonment. . . . . . . . 1-31
* e-1 Implementation of Firearm Penalty, 18-924(c)(1). . 1-37a *
f. Release Authority and Release on Other Than a
Weekend or Holiday. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-38
g. Good Conduct Time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-40
h. Six Month/Ten Percent Period. . . . . . . . . . . 1-62
i. Supervised Release. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-65
j. One Count Detention and Community Confinement/Home
Detention Sentence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-76
k. Implementation of the amendment to 18 U.S.C.
§ 3621 of the Violent Crime Control and Law
Enforcement Act of 1994 (P.L. 103-322). . . . . . 1-78A
4. COMPUTATION OF STUDY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-79
5. PRE- AND POST-MISTRETTA SRA SENTENCE COMPUTATION
INSTRUCTIONS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-82
a. Pre-Mistretta Period. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-83
b. Post-Mistretta Period. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-89
6. COMPUTATION OF FOREIGN TREATY SENTENCE. . . . . . . . 1-91
a. Sentence Computation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-92
7. PROBATION CUSTODY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-97
P.S. 5880.28
February 21, 1992
Page 1 - 1
CHAPTER I--SENTENCING REFORM ACT OF 1984
History
PS 5880.28 dated 1999-07-20
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- bop.gov
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