[Popman]

I know nothing about prisons and how they work, but doesn’t 20 years work down to about 7-8 years with good behavior and other such incentives....?

[Psalm 144]

I know nothing about prisons and how they work, but doesn’t 20 years work down to about 7-8 years with good behavior and other such incentives....?

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Used to be, and still is in many states. Not anymore in the federal system. Parole has been curtailed too. In the fed system, the sentence you get is close to what you will serve. At the moment.