FSAFirst Step Act of 2018
The 2018 federal law that created earned time credits for program participation (18 U.S.C. § 3632(d)(4)), fixed the Good Conduct Time calculation at a true 54 days per sentence-year, and expanded prerelease custody. In sentence-computation contexts, "FSA credits" means the earned time credits.
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