House Bill 1416

ARCHIVE (2011)

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DIGEST OF HB1416 (Updated April 29, 2011 6:31 pm - DI 107)

Credit time. Provides that, for an imprisoned person to earn credit time for successfully completing the requirements for a high school diploma through correspondence courses, each correspondence course must be approved in advance by the department of correction. Specifies that a period of confinement is consecutive even if an inmate was released on the basis of an erroneous court order, and requires the department of correction to identify an offender to the parole board and provide certain information if the offender has been consecutively confined for 21 to 25 years, depending on the amount of educational credit time earned by the offender.
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