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Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals Grants Credit to Prisoner’s LWOP Sentence by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On February 9, 2024, the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals held that even though Henry Neal Ferguson III had been sentenced to life in state prison without the possibility of parole (LWOP), he …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Montana Supreme Court Requires Sentence Credit for Time Served in Tribal Jail by On March 19, 2024, the Supreme Court of Montana held that time served in tribal jails prior to sentencing must be credited to that sentence. The case involved Malinda Crazymule. After pleading guilty to felony theft and …
Article • August 15, 2024 • from PLN August, 2024
South Carolina Supreme Court Grants Prisoner Credit for Time Served Awaiting Revocation of Supervised Release by On January 9, 2024, the Supreme Court of South Carolina held that a prisoner detained while awaiting proceedings to revoke community supervision must receive credit for time served prior to the revocation becoming final. …
BOP Has a Halfway House Problem by The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has faced challenges in implementing the First Step Act (FSA) since it was signed into law in December 2018 by then-President Donald J. Trump (R). Aimed at reducing prisoner population and associated costs, the law provided sentence …
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 • 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 • March 1, 2023 • from PLN March, 2023
Hospitalized California IST Defendants Entitled to Jail Conduct Credits by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On April 29, 2022, the California Court of Appeals held that incompetent to stand trial (IST) defendants who are confined in a state hospital receiving treatment to restore competency must be granted the same opportunity …
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 • November 30, 2022 • from PLN December, 2022
‘Good Time’ Credit Policy Wrongly Under Attack in Alabama by Jo Ellen Nott by Jo Ellen Nott Policymakers in Alabama are howling for an end to “good time” sentence credits after a recently released state prisoner killed a Sheriff’s deputy in June 2022. But how did Austin Patrick Hall, a …
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
Filed under: Good Time Credits
Sacramento Shooting Stokes Debate Over CDCR Rule Changes on Good Conduct Credit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke After a shootout between rival gangs in downtown Sacramento left six dead and 12 injured—many of them bystanders—on April 3, 2022, one of three suspects apprehended was Smiley Martin. Martin, 27, had …
Article • April 1, 2021 • from PLN April, 2021
Filed under: COVID-19, Good Time Credits
Massachusetts Governor Ends Good Time Offer for Prisoners Taking COVID-19 Vaccine by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Massachusetts is one of just a few states to offer the COVID-19 vaccine to prisoners. The governor’s office, however, put an end to prison officials offering ‘‘good time’’ to prisoners who elect …
Publication • 2020
Filed under: Good Time Credits
Bureau of Prisons-Final Rule, Nov 2020 Please note: This is the text of the First Step Act Time Credits final rule as signed by the Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, but the official version of the final rule will be as it is published in the Federal Register. …
Article • May 1, 2020 • from PLN May, 2020
Nevada Prisoner Prevails in Good Time Deprivation Appeal by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon On June 20, 2019, a two-justice majority on a Nevada court of appeals panel reversed and remanded a district court’s dismissal of a state prisoner’s civil rights complaint over the removal of good time credits. The …