Release Date for a Short Federal Revocation Sentence?

Working straight from the surrender date, five months from September 8 lands on February 8, 2017 as the full-term release date.

In the federal system, inmates serve a minimum of 85 percent of their sentence. On a 5-month sentence of roughly 152 days, 85 percent works out to about 129 days, which puts the earliest possible release around January 15, 2017. For sentences under a year, federal good conduct time is prorated and relatively modest, so the difference between the 85 percent date and the full-term date is not dramatic.

The more realistic planning date is somewhere in mid-to-late January 2017, assuming he keeps a clean record at Pekin. Five months is a short stretch and the system rarely adjusts short revocation sentences significantly in either direction unless something goes wrong.

Once he is processed in at Pekin, his unit counselor will have an official projected release date on file that reflects any adjustments. That is the number to go by for anything you are actually planning around.