[DOWNLOAD] "Cook V. Riley" by Eleventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Cook V. Riley
- Author : Eleventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 14, 2000
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 57 KB
Description
Section 3621(e)(2)(B) of Title 18 provides that the Bureau of Prisons ("BOP") may reduce by as much as one year the length of a prisoner's sentence for successful completion of a residential substance abuse treatment program. The statute limits the BOP's authority to do that to cases involving prisoners convicted of a "nonviolent offense." Through a regulation and program statement, the BOP has interpreted "nonviolent offense" as used in that statute to exclude the 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) crime of being a felon in possession of a firearm.