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MS SB2636
Bill
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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