MEMORANDUM OPINION
Pеtitioner Duncan Lorando, currently on parole, filed this pro se petition for habeas corpus relief while he was confined in the District of Columbiа’s Central Detention Facility (“CDF”). The United *61 States Parole Commission (“USPC”) and the CDF Warden have each responded to an Order to Show Cause. For the reasоns explained here, the petition for relief will be denied.
I. BACKGROUND
Sentenced in 1986 to a term of 30 years and 60 days for an offense committed in 1985, the petitioner has been paroled more than once, and his parole has been revoked more than once. See U.S. Parole Commission’s Opposition to Petitioner’s Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus (“Opp’n”) at 1-3 & Exhibit (“Ex.”) A. The most recent revocation was triggered when the petitioner was arrested on May 14, 2007, рursuant to a parole violation warrant for allegedly possessing cocaine with intent to distribute. Id. at 2. The United States Marshal Service tried to promptly notify the USPC of the petitioner’s arrest, but through some undiscovered error the attempted communication failed and the USPC did not receive effective notice of the petitioner’s arrest until August 29, 2007. Id. A probable cause hearing was held two days later, id., and the petitioner’s parole was revoked on October 31, 2007, id. at 3. In making the revocation deсision, the USPC found that the petitioner had committed the offense of possession of crack cocaine, not the alleged distribution offense, id. аt 2-3, and ultimately based the petitioner’s salient factor score on five, not six, prior convictions, id. at 5-6. On the petitioner’s administrative appeal, the record was corrected to reflect that the USPC had, in fact, based its revocation on a finding that the petitioner had possessed crack cocaine. Id. at 4. The petitioner’s administrative appeal claim with respect to the delayed probable cause hearing was denied because he showed no prejudice resulting from the delay. Id. The petitioner was released on parole on July 11, 2008, and his sentence expiration date is September 2, 2025. Id.
The petitioner challenges the loss of good time credits he earned while in custody prior to his most recent revocation, and in turn, the calculation of the date on which his sentence expires. See Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus by a Person in Custody in the District of Cоlumbia (“Pet.”) at 5. In addition, he contends that his rights were violated when he was not afforded a probable cause hearing within five days after he was taken intо custody on May 14, 2007. Id. at 6. He also maintains that the most recent parole revocation decision was based on information that should not have been considered because it had been expunged from his record. Id. at 5.
II. DISCUSSION
A petition for a writ of habeas corpus allows a petitioner to chаllenge restrictions on his freedom that are in “violation of the Constitution or laws or treaties of the United States.” 28 U.S.C. § 2241(c)(3) (2006). In such a proceeding, the govеrnment bears the initial burden of showing that its restrictions on the petitioner’s liberty are lawful.
See Boumediene v. Bush,
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Good time credits operate to allow a prisoner to bеcome eligible for release earlier than otherwise authorized by the sentence he received, to advance an inmate’s eligibility datе for release on parole and to decrease an inmate’s mandatory release date.
See
D.C.Code § 24-201.29 (repealed Aug. 20, 1994) (although repealed, this statute governs this case because it was in effect on the date of the petitioner’s 1985 offense and 1986 sentence);
see also
28 C.F.R: § 2.35(b) (2008). Once a prisonеr is released to parole, however, the usefulness of his earned good
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time credits is exhausted. 28 C.F.R. § 2.35(b). Thus, if after release, the release is revoked, the acquisition of good time credit to advance a release date begins anew.
See
D.C.Code § 24^406 (2001). In other words, good time credits do not survive a prisоner’s release.
See also Jones v. Clemmer,
Turning to the petitioner’s next argument, it is undisputed that the USPC did not receive timely notice of the petitioner’s arrest on May 14, 2007, and did not hold a probable cause until August 31, 2007, when the petitioner was heard and probable cause was found. Opp’n at 2. The petitioner has not identified any prejudice he sustained as a result of the delayed hearing and has not identified what relief he is seeking due to this delay. To the extent that he seeks release from custody, his request has been mooted by his reparóle, and to the extent he seeks some other relief, because the relief is unspecifiеd and there is no prejudice apparent on this record, the petition for relief on this basis will also be denied.
Finally, the petitioner asserts that in reaching its October 31, 2007 revocation decision, the USPC wrongfully considered information that had been expunged from the petitioner’s record. Pet. at 5. However, the petitioner does not indicate what information was allegedly considered in error. The USPC has conjectured that petitioner is referring to the number of prior convictions used to calculate the petitioner’s salient factor score. On this matter, the USPC concluded that the pеtitioner had five, not six, prior convictions. Opp’n at 5-6. However, even if the petitioner had only four prior convictions, the salient factor scоre would have been identical because four or more prior convictions are accorded the same weight. See Opp’n, Ex. D at 3. On this record аnd in the absence of greater specificity from the petitioner, the USPC has demonstrated that the information it considered was properly cоnsidered, the petitioner had an adequate opportunity to challenge the information, and the petitioner was not prejudiced by the informаtion’s consideration. In any even, as already noted, to the extent that the petitioner seeks release, his request has been mooted by his reрaróle, and to the extent he seeks some other form of relief, he has not identified it for the Court. Therefore, the petition for relief will be denied with respect to this claim as well.
III. CONCLUSION
The record before the Court shows that the USPC did not err in its application of the petitioner’s earned good time сredits or the calculation of the expiration of the petitioner’s sentence. The record also fails to show that the petitioner sufferеd any prejudice resulting from the USPC’s *63 failure to conduct a timely probable cause hearing or from its conclusion, for purposes of calculating his salient factor score, that the petitioner had five prior convictions. Therefore, the petition for relief based on this final argument will also be denied.
A separate order accompanies this memorandum opinion.