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12-29-201. Meritorious good time.
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12-29-201. Meritorious good time.
(a) An inmate may be entitled to meritorious good time reducing his or her transfer eligibility date up to thirty (30) days for each month incarcerated after imposition of sentence in one (1) of the units, facilities, and centers maintained by the Division of Correction or the Division of Community Correction.
(b) An inmate transferred or paroled to the supervision of the Division of Community Correction under § 16-93-615 may receive meritorious good time reducing his or her time of transfer or parole supervision up to thirty (30) days for each month he or she is under the supervision of the Division of Community Correction.
(c) Meritorious good time shall be allocated under rules promulgated by the Board of Corrections and administered by the respective Division of Correction or Division of Community Correction staff subject to the provisions of this subchapter for good discipline, behavior, work practices, job responsibilities, and involvement in rehabilitative activities while in the custody or under the supervision of the Division of Correction or the Division of Community Correction.
(d) Meritorious good time will not be applied to reduce the length of a sentence.
(e)(1) Meritorious good time shall apply to an inmate's transfer eligibility date from the Division of Correction or a community correction facility.
(2) Meritorious good time shall under no circumstances reduce an inmate's time served in prison by more than one-half (½) of the percentage required by law for transfer eligibility.
(3) Meritorious good time shall under no circumstances reduce an inmate's confinement in a community correction facility by more than one-half (½).
(f)(1) The Division of Correction or the Division of Community Correction shall de
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 12-29-201
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12-29-201. Meritorious good time.
(a) An inmate may be entitled to meritorious good time reducing his or her transfer eligibility date up to thirty (30) days for each month incarcerated after imposition of sentence in one (1) of the units, facilities, and centers maintained by the Division of Correction or the Division of Community Correction.
(b) An inmate transferred or paroled to the supervision of the Division of Community Correction under § 16-93-615 may receive meritorious good time reducing his or her time of transfer or parole supervision up to thirty (30) days for each month he or she is under the supervision of the Division of Community Correction.
(c) Meritorious good time shall be allocated under rules promulgated by the Board of Corrections and administered by the respective Division of Correction or Division of Community Correction staff subject to the provisions of this subchapter for good discipline, behavior, work practices, job responsibilities, and involvement in rehabilitative activities while in the custody or under the supervision of the Division of Correction or the Division of Community Correction.
(d) Meritorious good time will not be applied to reduce the length of a sentence.
(e)(1) Meritorious good time shall apply to an inmate's transfer eligibility date from the Division of Correction or a community correction facility.
(2) Meritorious good time shall under no circumstances reduce an inmate's time served in prison by more than one-half (½) of the percentage required by law for transfer eligibility.
(3) Meritorious good time shall under no circumstances reduce an inmate's confinement in a community correction facility by more than one-half (½).
(f)(1) The Division of Correction or the Division of Community Correction shall determine a date on which the inmate who has acquired the maximum amount of meritorious good time necessary is to be administratively transferred to a less restrictive placement or supervision level within the Division of Community Correction.
(2) This date will be determined in accordance with the policies developed by the Arkansas Sentencing Commission within the parameters allowed by law.
(g)(1) Inmates under sentence of death or life imprisonment without parole shall not be eligible for meritorious good time under this subchapter but may be pardoned or have their sentences commuted by the Governor, as provided by law.
(2) Inmates sentenced to life imprisonment shall not receive meritorious good time calculated on their sentences unless the sentence is commuted to a term of years by executive clemency.
(3) Upon commutation, the inmate shall be eligible to receive meritorious good time at the rate established by this subchapter.
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16-93-615. Parole eligibility procedures — Offenses committed after January 1, 1994.
(a)(1)(A) An inmate under sentence for any felony, except those listed in subsection (b) of this section, shall be transferred from the Department of Correction to the Department of Community Correction under this section and §§ 16-93-614, 16-93-616, and 16-93-617, subject to rules promulgated by the Board of Corrections or the Parole Board and conditions adopted by the Parole Board.
(B) The determination under subdivision (a)(1)(A) of this section shall be made by reviewing information such as the result of the risk-needs assessment to inform the decision of whether to release a person on parole by quantifying that person's risk to reoffend, and if parole is granted, this information shall be used to set conditions for supervision.
(C) The Parole Board shall begin transfer release proceedings or a preliminary review under this subchapter no later than six (6) months before a person's transfer eligibility date, and the Parole Board shall authorize jacket review procedures no later than six (6) months before a person's transfer eligibility at all institutions holding parole-eligible inmates to prepare parole applications.
(D) This review may be conducted without a hearing when the inmate has not received a major disciplinary report against him or her that resulted in the loss of good time, there has not been a request by a victim to have input on transfer conditions, and there is no indication in the risk-needs assessment review that special conditions need to be placed on the inmate.
(2)(A) When one (1) or more of the circumstances in subdivision (a)(1) of this section are present, the Parole Board shall conduct a hearing to determine the appropriateness of the inmate for tran
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 16-93-615
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 16-93-615. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.