(1)Unless otherwise provided by
law, every inmate confined in a correctional facility of the department who has
committed no infraction of the rules or regulations of the department or the laws of
the state and who performs in a faithful, diligent, industrious, orderly, and
peaceable manner the work, duties, and tasks assigned to him to the satisfaction of
the executive director or any of his designees may be allowed time credit
reductions as follows: A deduction of two months in each of the first two years, four
months in each of the next two years, and five months in each of the remaining
years of his term of confinement, and correspondingly for any part of the year if
such term of confinement is for less than a year. The mode of computing credits
shall be as follows:
Number
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(1) Unless otherwise provided by
law, every inmate confined in a correctional facility of the department who has
committed no infraction of the rules or regulations of the department or the laws of
the state and who performs in a faithful, diligent, industrious, orderly, and
peaceable manner the work, duties, and tasks assigned to him to the satisfaction of
the executive director or any of his designees may be allowed time credit
reductions as follows: A deduction of two months in each of the first two years, four
months in each of the next two years, and five months in each of the remaining
years of his term of confinement, and correspondingly for any part of the year if
such term of confinement is for less than a year. The mode of computing credits
shall be as follows:
Number of Good time Total good Time to be served
yrs. of that may be time that may if full credits are
sentence earned be earned earned and allowed
1st year 2 months 2 months 10 months
2nd year 2 months 4 months 1 year 8 months
3rd year 4 months 8 months 2 years 4 months
4th year 4 months 1 year 3 years
5th year 5 months 1 year 5 months 3 years 7 months
6th year 5 months 1 year 10 months 4 years 2 months
7th year 5 months 2 years 3 months 4 years 9 months
8th year 5 months 2 years 8 months 5 years 4 months
9th year 5 months 3 years 1 month 5 years 11 months
10th year 5 months 3 years 6 months 6 years 6 months
and so continuing through as many years as may be the time of confinement.
(2) To those inmates whom the executive director or any of his designees
may designate as trusties and who conduct themselves in accordance with
departmental rules and perform their work in a creditable manner, upon approval of
the executive director or any of his designees, additional good time to that allowed
in the table set forth in subsection (1) of this section, not to exceed ten days in any
one calendar month, shall be credited upon the time remaining to be served, such
credit to be allowed only upon the actual number of months served in each year in a
correctional facility of the department.
(3) The executive director or any of his designees may grant to any inmate
confined in a correctional facility additional good time credit to that allowed under
subsections (1) and (2) of this section, not to exceed five days per month for each
calendar year remaining to be served, for the following reasons:
(a) Meritorious service by an inmate; or
(b) Outstanding performance of assigned tasks in correctional industries.
(4) The executive director or any of his designees may restore to the credit
of any inmate confined in a correctional facility all or any portion of good time
credits which have been forfeited by the inmate as a result of any disciplinary
action or provision of law.
(5) (a) The provisions of this section shall apply to a defendant whose
sentence was stayed pending appeal prior to July 1, 1972, but who was confined
pending disposition of the appeal. Such credit shall be against the maximum and
minimum terms of his sentence for the entire period of confinement served while
the stay of execution was in effect.
(b) A defendant whose sentence is stayed pending appeal after July 1, 1972,
but who is confined pending disposition of the appeal is entitled to the credit
provided by this section against the maximum and minimum terms of his sentence
for the entire period of confinement served while the stay of execution was in
effect.
(6) If any inmate assaults any keeper, guard, foreman, officer, inmate, or
other person, or threatens or endangers the person or life of anyone, or violates or
disregards any departmental rule or regulation, or neglects or refuses to do the
work to which he is assigned, or is guilty of any misconduct, or violates any of the
rules or regulations governing parole, the department may order the forfeiture of
all time credits theretofore earned by or allowed to him before the commission of
such offense under this section.