IL HB3901

Prisoners serving first-degree murder sentences (except natural life imprisonment) receive no more than 4.5 days of sentence credit per month, rather than serving the entire sentence.

Sentence credit limits increase from 4.5 to 7.5 days per month for various offenses including attempt to commit murder, sexual assaults, kidnapping, armed robbery, aggravated battery, and aggravated domestic battery.

Drug trafficking and related offenses allow up to 12 days of sentence credit per month (increased from 7.5 days).

Directors of Corrections and Juvenile Justice may award earned sentence credits without fixed daily limits, provided credits do not reduce sentences below specified percentages (60%, 70%, 85%, or 100% depending on offense).

Department must award accumulated sentence credits from before this Act's effective date to inmates serving sentences for offenses committed on or after June 19, 1998, based on documented program participation or inmate testimony.