its no automatic and from listening to actual lawyers and former prosecutors I think he'll serve every day of it.
Again, as already pointed out a few times now (including in the OP) that's incorrect. Unless you misbehave then it's 85%
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In federal court you will have to serve 85% of your sentence if convicted of federal charges. Thus, if you are sentenced to 10 years in prison, you will actually serve 8.5 years in prison.
That's the result of The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994.
This is further clarified by:
The standard is 54 days per year knocked off if the prisoner doesn't misbehave or basically 15%
If you're going to carry on disagreeing with that then cite your source, lack of parole doesn't negate the reduction for good behavior... so what's the basis for your claim that he'd serve every day of it when the relevant legislation clearly says otherwise and sets out an automatic reduction so long as he behaves?