§ 47-502 — Person sentenced to or confined in jail; sentence or sanction reduction

Nebraska § 47-502

• Jurisdiction: Nebraska
• Ch. 47: Jails and Correctional Facilities

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Any person sentenced to or confined in a city or county jail, including any person serving a custodial sanction imposed in response to a parole or probation violation, shall, after the fifteenth day of his or her confinement, have the aggregate of his or her remaining term, including the sum of all consecutive sentences the person receives, whether received at the same time or at any time during such sentence or confinement, reduced one day for each day of his or her sentence or sanction during which he or she has not committed any breach of discipline or other violation of jail regulations.

Legislative History

Source: Laws 1982, LB 231, § 2; R.S.Supp.,1982, § 23-2811; Laws 1983, LB 180, § 5; Laws 1993, LB 113, § 2; Laws 2010, LB712, § 40; Laws 2016, LB1094, § 27; Laws 2025, LB640, § 1. Effective Date: September 3, 2025 Annotations: Where an individual is sentenced to consecutive terms in a county jail, arising from separate sentences in separate cases, the first-15-day period applies separately to each sentence to the county jail. Mullins v. Box Butte County, 317 Neb. 937, 13 N.W.3d 67 (2024). Where an offender is originally sentenced to post-release supervision and is later resentenced to confinement in a county jail following the revocation of post-release supervision, the offender is entitled to good time reduction of his or her county jail sentence. State v. Knight, 311 Neb. 485, 973 N.W.2d 356 (2022). Probationers serving consecutive jail time are eligible to earn good time credit. State v. Lobato, 259 Neb. 579, 611 N.W.2d 101 (2000). A probationer sentenced to an intermittent sentence is not entitled to a reduction of that sentence pursuant to this section. This section does not apply to probationers sentenced to intermittent sentences authorized pursuant to section 29-2262. State v. Salyers, 239 Neb. 1002, 480 N.W.2d 173 (1992). This section, establishing good time credit in the county jail system, is applicable to time spent in the county jail awaiting sentencing. Williams v. Hjorth, 230 Neb. 97, 430 N.W.2d 52 (1988). This section is applicable to time spent in the county jail awaiting sentencing. State v. Zamarron, 19 Neb. App. 349, 806 N.W.2d 128 (2011).