They will serve 85% of their time unless this is a county jail and the overcrowding is critical. Some inmates with short sentences that are related to non-violent offenses might get out a bit earlier to make room.

Post-conviction sentence reduction success is rare. Getting a sentence dropped altogether will never happen, especially when you see a sentence of 103 years... this judge must have been very angry to hand down that time to an eighteen year old. Your friend's best chance is if the judge allowed for a possibility of parole in the Judgement and Commitment papers. If that is available, then he will need to work VERY hard with the staff at the prison to

Normal state sentences that carry a ten year minimum mandatory will have to serve 85% of their imposed sentence, UNLESS the sentencing judge has a parole provision in the offender's Judgement and Commitment papers. Parole could come as soon as twenty-five percent in if the inmate is a model prisoner.

They added back his good time credits. A violation for tobacco is not an offense that can add to a sentence. MOst inmates start their bid with a 15% good time credit, giving them an "out date" of 85% of their original sentence. They can only lose that time, not have more added unless they catch another felony charge like drugs, a weapon, an assault or worse - not for tobacco.

Yes, sixteen years is a lot of time, but the offender's criminal history is long, too. In our opinion, and we are not lawyers, unless there is some new evidence that will compel the judge to reopen the case we do not think there is ANY chance that this will get overturned - especially without some very good reason.

Depending on where you are incarcerated there are only a couple of ways to get your sentence reduced. The most common way is to provide substantial assistance to the authorities that results in the conviction of another (yes, snitching - but it happens all of the time). The other way, if your inmate is in federal prison and qualifies for this program, is called RDAP. RDAP is the Residential Drug Abuse Program which is a nine month program. Once successfully

This depends on the facility. With such a short sentence, usually the only way that there would be any reduction is if he was a model inmate and the facility was heavily overcrowded. Otherwise you should expect he will do most of the six-month sentence. It is very unlikely that they will grant him a transfer.

FCI Edgefield is a new prison that also has a satellitecamp. Your boyfriend's sentence might place him in the camp which would make his time a lot less stressful. Good time is automatically given to the inmate, only bad behavior and rule breaking can take it away. A twenty-one month sentence would be reduced to just under eighteen months. The halfway house will be between 1-6 months - more likely 2-3 months. We thing that he will do about 15

There are no pending state bills that we know of that will increase good time. Most state prison systems already give 15% good time that is automatically applied - unless there are incident reports that cause the inmate to lose it.

The problem is that the judge that sentenced him originally will be the decider of how much time he will do. We have heard of both scenarios, either they do about half or all of the original sentence.