.127 Service credits for work in community service program or within jail -- Withdrawal of earned credits for misconduct.
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441.127 Service credits for work in community service program or within jail --
Withdrawal of earned credits for misconduct.
(1)
Unless precluded by written order of the sentencing court with regard to a specific
inmate or inmates, the jailer or correctional services department may grant sentence
credits to inmates confined in the county jail on conviction of misdemeanor charges
for labor performed without the jail in a community service program or within the
jail for the maintenance of the jail or for the operation of jail services such as food
service.
(2)
Credit, if granted, shall be uniform and shall be based on the following:
(a) For every eight (8) full hours of work, one (1) sentence credit shall be earned;
(b) For every five (5) of sentence credits earned, one (1) day of the sentence to be
served by the inmate shall be deducted; and
(c) Sentence credits shall be deducted from the maximum expiration date of the
sentence.
(3)
If an inmate violates the rules of the jail or engages in other misconduct the jailer or
correctional services department may withdraw sentence credits earned by the
inmate. The jailer or correctional services department shall maintain a list of
offenses and penalties for the ten (10) most common offenses and rule violations.
Effective: July 15, 1996
History: Created 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 57, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1996.
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