21-4614a. Deduction of time spent in residential facility, conservation camp or community correctional residential services program.
21-4614a
21-4614a. Deduction of time spent in residential facility,conservation camp or community correctional residential services program.(a) In any criminal action in which probation, assignment to aconservation camp or assignmentto community corrections is revoked and the defendant is sentenced toconfinement, for the purpose of computing the defendant's sentence andparole eligibility and conditional release dates, the defendant's sentenceis to be computed from a date, hereafter to be specifically designated inthe sentencing order of the journal entry of judgment or the judgment formdelivered with the defendant to the correctional institution. Such dateshall be established to reflect and shall be computed as an allowance forthe time which the defendant has spent in a residential facility while onprobation, assignment to a conservation camp or assignment tocommunity correctional residential services program.The commencing date of such sentence shall be usedas the date of sentence and all good time allowances as are authorizedby law are to be allowed on such sentence from such date as though the defendantwere actually incarcerated in a correctional institution. Such credit isnot to be considered to reduce the minimum or maximum terms of confinementauthorized by law for the offense of which the defendant has been convicted.
History: L. 1988, ch. 115, § 4;L. 1989, ch. 92, § 25; July 1.