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Good Time on Alaska CS Sentences Subtracted from Aggregate Sentence
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2003
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2003, page 27
The Alaska Court of Appeals held that good time credits for prisoners serving consecutive sentences are subtracted from the entire sentence rather than against each separate sentence. The court also held that prisoners serving more than one sentence receive the benefit of good time credits and are released on mandatory ...
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