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County Jail Time Returned to CO Lifers
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2000, page 15
The Colorado Supreme Court has held that prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment are entitled to presentence confinement (PSC) credits for the time they spent in the county jail before sentencing.Until 1977, life sentences in Colorado were a minimum of ten years to parole eligibility. From 1977 to 1985, this …
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