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MS SB2636

Bill

Status

Failed

3/6/2012

Primary Sponsor

Sampson Jackson

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Origin

Senate

2012 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Amends Section 47-5-138.1 of Mississippi Code to modify eligibility requirements for trusty status inmates to earn additional sentence reductions
  • Trusty status inmates can earn 30 days of sentence reduction for each 30 days of satisfactory participation in approved programs, education, work projects, or special incentive programs
  • Adds drug trafficking convictions under Section 41-29-139 to the list of crimes that disqualify inmates from earning trusty time reductions
  • Maintains existing disqualifications including life sentences, habitual offender convictions, sex crime convictions, and certain violent crimes with mandatory parole eligibility periods
  • Takes effect July 1, 2012

Legislative Description

Trusty status offenders; revise crimes that make offenders eligible for additional earned time.

Last Action

Died In Committee

3/6/2012

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