[lbo-talk] State vs. federal sentencing

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Fri Sep 23 10:45:22 PDT 2005


On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, andie nachgeborenen wrote:


> Btw, there is no parole in the federal system, just good time. So it's not
> true that federal prisoners always serve their full sentences -- generally
> they serve maybe, what 3/4? if they are well behaved.

Interesting. So when a state court sentences someone to 8 1/3 to 25 years, like they did Kozlowski, is 8 1/3 the minimum necessary before they can be paroled? Whereas in the federal system, no minimum is specified before you can get out, even though the good time index system probably mathematically implies one?

Michael



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