Rico v. United States · ¶30

Look at it this way. When a prisoner escapes, he is in no sense serving his prison sentence. In contrast, when a defendant on supervised release fails to report, everyone agrees he remains bound by the terms of his release. That is why, for failing to report and any other violation he may commit during his judicially ordered term of supervised release, a court may send a defendant to prison and authorize more supervised release yet. § 3583(e)(3). The court can do all that, too, even after the defendant's prescribed term of supervised release expires, so long as a warrant or summons issues beforehand. § 3583(i). The Act thus already provides courts with many ways to ensure a defendant does not proft from a supervised release violation. But what the Act does not do is automatically extend the defendant's period of supervised release beyond what a judge has ordered. And that additional…

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