20 year jail sentence how long you serve?

Answer 1

How long you serve a 20 year sentence depends on your location. If you are in the United States and in a State under The Federal Civil Rights Law, you will serve 85% of your sentence. In other states you may serve as little as 1/3 of the time.

Answer 2

In the federal prison system, an inmate must serve at least 85% of his sentence. This means, for a 20 month sentence, that the inmate must serve at least 18 1/2 months before he can be eligible for release. Of course, his actual release can be affected by how much gain time or administrative time he actually receives or is forfeited for misconduct.

Answer 3

All of it except for 54 days a year and possibly 30 to 90 days in a halfway house at the end of the sentence.