365 Days > 366 Days: The (in)Ability to Earn Good Time Credit During the Time of COVID-19-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

365 Days > 366 Days: The (in)Ability to Earn Good Time Credit During the Time of COVID-19

Published:2023-10-19 Issue:6 Volume:103 Page:749-768
ISSN:0032-8855
Container-title:The Prison Journal
language:en
Short-container-title:The Prison Journal

Author:

Craun Sarah W.¹,Silver James²

Affiliation:

1. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Arlington, VA, USA

2. Boston University Metropolitan College, Boston, MA, USA

Abstract

Federal offenders sentenced to imprisonment for more than a year may earn “good time credit”. Offenders sentenced to 365 days are ineligible for this potential sentence reduction of up to 54 days a year. Using 2020 through 2022 data from the United States Sentencing Commission, we identified 3,765 federal offenders sentenced to either 365- or 366-days’ imprisonment. Independent variables included offender, legal, and case characteristics. Integrating the COVID-19 pandemic, we reviewed the percentage of compassionate release motions granted at the district level. A hierarchical logistic regression with random effects illustrated several measures connected to the ability to earn goodtime credit.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Law,Social Sciences (miscellaneous)

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/00328855231208010

Reference25 articles.

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