Case Name: Francisco GONZALEZ, Appellant v. Ronnie HOLT, Warden, FCI-Schuylkill; A. Leonard, Unit Manager, FCI-Schuylkill; Mr. Plesh, Case Manager, FCI-Schuylkill; Bop Administrative Remedy Coordinator
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2006-04-06
Citations: 173 F. App'x 990
Docket Number: No. 05-1518
Parties: Francisco GONZALEZ, Appellant v. Ronnie HOLT, Warden, FCI-Schuylkill; A. Leonard, Unit Manager, FCI-Schuylkill; Mr. Plesh, Case Manager, FCI-Schuylkill; Bop Administrative Remedy Coordinator.
Judges: Before ROTH, MCKEE and ALDISERT, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 173
Pages: 990–991

Head Matter:
Francisco GONZALEZ, Appellant v. Ronnie HOLT, Warden, FCI-Schuylkill; A. Leonard, Unit Manager, FCI-Schuylkill; Mr. Plesh, Case Manager, FCI-Schuylkill; Bop Administrative Remedy Coordinator.
No. 05-1518.
United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.
Submitted Under Third Circuit LAR 34.1(a) May 27, 2005.
Decided April 6, 2006.
Francisco Gonzalez, Minersville, PA, pro se.
Before ROTH, MCKEE and ALDISERT, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
OPINION
PER CURIAM.
Appellant Francisco Gonzalez pled guilty in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York to one count of conspiracy to commit robbery affecting interstate commerce, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1951. On September 13, 2000, he was sentenced to 151 months in prison. On January 13, 2005, Gonzalez commenced this 28 U.S.C. § 2241 habeas corpus proceeding in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, claiming that the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has erred in projecting his release date based on its award of good-time credits. According to Gonzalez, he is entitled to an award of 679 days of good-time credit over the life of his sentence rather than the 592 days that the BOP has projected he will earn based on the actual amount of time Gonzalez will serve. Gonzalez contends that the BOP has misinterpreted 18 U.S.C. § 3624(b).
The District Court denied the habeas petition, concluding that the BOP's method of calculating good-time credit is not arbitrary, capricious, or contrary to the language of § 3624(b). Gonzalez timely filed this appeal. We have appellate jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and 2253(a).
In O'Donald v. Johns, 402 F.3d 172 (3d Cir.2005), this Court recently rejected the same argument that Gonzalez advances here. In O'Donald, we held that although the meaning of § 3624(b) is ambiguous, we must defer to the BOP's reasonable interpretation of the statutory language. Id. at 174. Gonzalez's challenge to the calculation of his good-time credit is identical to that raised and rejected in O'Donald. As such, we will affirm the District Court's denial of the habeas petition.