2007 Minnesota Code
Chapters 241 - 244 Corrections
Chapter 244 Criminal Sentences, Conditions, Duration, Appeals
Section 244.01 DEFINITIONS.

244.01 DEFINITIONS.
Subdivision 1. Scope. For purposes of sections 244.01 to 244.11, the following terms shall
have the meanings given them.
Subd. 2. Inmate. "Inmate" means any person who is convicted of a felony, is committed to
the custody of the commissioner of corrections and is confined in a state correctional facility or
released from a state correctional facility pursuant to section 244.065 or 244.07.
Subd. 3. Commissioner. "Commissioner" means the commissioner of corrections or a
designee.
Subd. 4. Correctional facility. "Correctional facility" means any state facility under the
operational authority of the commissioner of corrections.
Subd. 5. Good time. "Good time" means the period of time by which an inmate's term of
imprisonment is reduced pursuant to section 244.04.
Subd. 6. Commission. "Commission" means the Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines
Commission established pursuant to section 244.09.
Subd. 7. Supervised release. "Supervised release" means the release of an inmate pursuant
to section 244.05.
Subd. 8. Term of imprisonment. "Term of imprisonment," as applied to inmates whose
crimes were committed before August 1, 1993, is the period of time for which an inmate is
committed to the custody of the commissioner of corrections minus earned good time. "Term of
imprisonment," as applied to inmates whose crimes were committed on or after August 1, 1993, is
the period of time equal to two-thirds of the inmate's executed sentence.
Subd. 9. Executed sentence. "Executed sentence" means the total period of time for which
an inmate is committed to the custody of the commissioner of corrections.
History: 1978 c 723 art 1 s 1; 1979 c 102 s 13; 1980 c 417 s 12,13; 1984 c 589 s 1,2; 1986 c
444; 1992 c 571 art 2 s 1; 1993 c 326 art 9 s 3,4