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BOP Program Statement 5880.28 § 5

DISTRIBUTION. At a minimum, a copy of this Manual will be

activein force · 1999-07-20 – presentact-effective-date

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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