No. HB 297
Filed under Criminal Justice.
Criminal Rehabilitation; Specifies to rehabilitate offender to transition back to community successfully is one of primary purposes of sentencing; reduces minimum sentence that must be served by defendant from 85 percent of sentence to 72 percent; revises provisions concerning gain-time to provide for outstanding deed gain-time, good behavior time, & rehabilitation credits; provides for amounts to be awarded; revises limits on awards.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDThe bill lowers the mandatory minimum incarceration threshold from 85% to 72% of a sentence for most offenders. This change directly reduces the time most inmates must serve before becoming eligible for release.
It mandates that the Department of Corrections grant 60 days of rehabilitation credits for completing specific educational and treatment programs. These credits apply retroactively to inmates who completed programs before the law's effective date.
The legislation replaces the existing incentive and basic gain-time framework with a new rehabilitation credit system. It also establishes that good behavior time becomes non-forfeitable two years after it is granted to a prisoner.
New release conditions allow inmates to be released early based on accumulated outstanding deed or rehabilitation credit time. This replaces the previous meritorious or incentive gain-time categories used for early release determinations.
AILowers the mandatory minimum incarceration threshold from 85% to 72% of the sentence for most offenders.
AIRequires the Department of Corrections to grant 60 days of credits for completing specific educational and treatment programs.
AIApplies new rehabilitation credit awards retroactively to inmates who completed programs before the law's effective date.
AIReplaces the existing 'incentive gain-time' and 'basic gain-time' framework with a new 'rehabilitation credit' system, changing how inmates earn and lose time off their sentences.
AIAllows inmates to be released early based on accumulated 'outstanding deed' or 'rehabilitation credit' time, replacing the previous 'meritorious' or 'incentive gain-time' categories.
AIBroadens the types of programs that qualify for rehabilitation credits to include mental health, life skills, and reentry programs.
AIEstablishes that good behavior time becomes non-forfeitable two years after it is granted to a prisoner.
AIReplaces the terms 'incentive' and 'meritorious' gain-time with 'rehabilitation credits' and 'outstanding deed' gain-time.