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Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Nebraska Supreme Court Clarifies Award of Time Served Credit for Non-Citizen Awaiting Extradition by Matthew Clarke On December 6, 2024, the Supreme Court of Nebraska clarified when a sentencing court is required to award credit for time served while incarcerated in a foreign country awaiting extradition. It held that crediting …
Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
California Appellate Court: Custody Credits Must be Applied to Concurrent Terms in Multiple Open Cases by David M. Reutter In a case of importance to California prisoners, the state Court of Appeals, Sixth Appellate District, held on June 28, 2024, that Penal Code § 2900.5 requires a trial court to apply …
Virginia Parole Board Skirts New Transparency Rules, Governor Walks Back Expanded Sentence Credits—Again by Parole-eligible Virginia prisoners face one of the nation’s stingiest boards. So state lawmakers made parole decisions more transparent with passage of two new laws, the most recent signed by Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) on April 4, …
BOP Prisoners in Alabama Strike to Protest Release Date Confusion by On September 11, 2024, several prisoners began a hunger strike at the Federal Prison Camp (FPC) in Montgomery, Alabama, protesting a frustrating lack of clarity about their release dates fully six years after the First Step Act of 2018 …
After Florida Appellate Court Holds Crimes of ‘Attempt’ Eligible for Incentive Gain Time, Supreme Court Refuses Review by Kevin Bliss by Kevin W. Bliss On November 14, 2024, Florida’s Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by officials with the state Department of Corrections (DOC) to an appellate court ruling that exempted …
Article • December 15, 2024 • from PLN December, 2024
Fifth Circuit Judges Battle in Louisiana Over-Detention Cases by The State of Louisiana cannot manage to correctly calculate release dates for those it incarcerates, leaving prisoners held weeks and months beyond expiration of their sentences. These over-detention cases, as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit calls them, …
Article • November 15, 2024 • from PLN November, 2024
Former Virginia Prisoners Win Back Denied Sentence Credits, Sue Over Delayed Release by Virginia’s shifting rules on sentence credits for state prisoners continue to end up before the state Supreme Court, which has twice spanked state Attorney General Jason Miyares (R) for failing to abide by the law. Several former …
Article • May 1, 2024 • from PLN May, 2024
Virginia Supreme Court Denies New Sentence Credits to State Prisoner Serving “Mixed” Sentence by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney To paraphrase Job 1:21, the Supreme Court of Virginia did not giveth but taketh away on October 12, 2023, with a ruling on prisoner sentence credits that were extended by a …
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
Former L.A. County Jail Detainees Denied Promised Sentence Credits by A nonprofit is asking for help for 23 former Los Angeles County jail detainees who completed work and education programs but were never credited promised time off the sentences they eventually received. KeepYourWordCali says the detainees participated in the Education-Based …
Article • January 1, 2024 • from PLN January, 2024
Wisconsin Supreme Court: Jail Time Must Be Credited When Charge Causing Jailing Read in At Sentencing by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On June 14, 2023, the Supreme Court of Wisconsin held that a state prisoner must be given jail time credit on his sentence when the charge resulting in …
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Filed under: Good Time Credits, Credits
Vermont Supreme Court Provides Prisoner No Relief for Denial of Earned-Time Credits by On January 27, 2023, the Vermont Supreme Court held that a state prisoner was not entitled to benefit from an earned-time program because he committed his offense after the program was authorized but sentenced before it went …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Ninth Circuit Revives Former Nevada Prisoner’s Claim for Deprivation of Sentence Credit by by Douglas Ankney On April 25, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said a lower court erred by ignoring a former state prisoner’s claim that the Department of Corrections (DOC) violated his due …
Article • May 1, 2023 • from PLN May, 2023
Filed under: Credits
California Appellate Court: State Prisoners Held in Jail and Those Held in Prisons Not Alike for Sentence Credits by Jacob Barrett by Jacob Barrett On September 28, 2022, the Supreme Court of California declined to hear an appeal to a lower court’s decision that shrugged off differences in program credits …
Article • April 24, 2023
Hawaii Supreme Court Rules That Time Served for Concurrent Sentences Can Be Counted Only Once for Sentence Credit by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On March 15, 2023, the Supreme Court of Hawaii ruled that Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS) §706-671 (2014) does not entitle a defendant to count time earned …
Article • April 24, 2023
Nebraska Supreme Court Puts Burden on Migrant Detainee to Prove Sentence Calculation Credit Error by Casey Bastian by Casey J. Bastian On March 10, 2023, the Nebraska Supreme Court affirmed a sentencing court’s jail credit calculation under Neb. Rev. Stat. § 47-503 (Reissue 2021), in a case where the amount …
Article • April 1, 2023 • from PLN April, 2023
Montana Supreme Court Grants State Prisoner 604 Days in Sentence Credit by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Supreme Court of Montana, in an opinion issued on October 18, 2022, held that the District Court for the state’s Seventh Judicial Circuit issued an illegal sentence when it failed to …
Article • January 1, 2023 • from PLN January, 2023
Filed under: Good Time Credits, Credits
Virginia Swipes Sentence Credits From 560 Prisoners Just About to Get Out by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Just as the Virginia Department of Corrections (DOC) was preparing to release 560 prisoners in July 2022, Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) and state lawmakers stepped in with a budget amendment that …
Article • January 1, 2022 • from PLN January, 2022
Michigan Supreme Court Holds Convicted Prisoner Entitled to Pre-Trial Jail Time Credit by On July 27, 2021, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled en banc that pre-trial detainees are entitled to jail time credit if they were unable to make bond except for jail time served after a parole revocation warrant …
Article • November 1, 2021 • from PLN November, 2021
Indiana Prisoner Entitled to Credit Time During Period of Erroneous Liberty by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Indiana Supreme Court held that a prisoner who was erroneously released early “is entitled to credit time as if he were still incarcerated during the period he was erroneously at liberty.” …
Brief • November 17, 2020
Filed under: Credits
Bramblett v. Commonwealth of Kentucky, KY, Complaint, Sentence Credit, 2020 Case: 3:17-cv-00100-GFVT-EBA Doc #: 146 Filed: 11/17/20 Page: 1 of 14 - Page ID#: 3774 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY CENTRAL DIVISION at FRANKFORT [Filed Electronically] KEATH BRAMBLETT, et al., individually and on behalf of all others …
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