§ 244.44 — Applying Earned Incentive Release Credit
Plain-Language Summary
Inmates can earn credits for good behavior and program participation that reduce their time in prison by up to 17 percent of their total sentence. These earned incentive release credits cannot reduce prison time to less than half of the sentence, and they can be taken away for breaking facility rules.
244.44 APPLYING EARNED INCENTIVE RELEASE CREDIT.
Earned incentive release credits are included in calculating the term of imprisonment but are not added to the person’s supervised release term, the total length of which remains unchanged. The maximum amount of earned incentive release credit that can be earned and subtracted from the term of imprisonment is 17 percent of the total executed sentence. Earned credit cannot reduce the term of imprisonment to less than one-half of the incarcerated person’s executed sentence. Earned incentive release credits are revocable if the person violates rules of the facility where the person is incarcerated or otherwise commits a criminal act while incarcerated.
History:
2023 c 52 art 12 s 7; 2025 c 35 art 7 s 12
History: History: 2023 c 52 art 12 s 7; 2025 c 35 art 7 s 12