2012 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 54 - Criminal Procedure
Chapter 961 - Trial and Proceedings After Conviction
Section 54-128 - Period of confinement in correctional institution after parole violation.

(a) Any paroled inmate who has been returned to any institution of the Department of Correction for violation of such inmate’s parole may be retained in a correctional institution for a period equal to the unexpired portion of the term of such inmate’s sentence at the date of the request or order for such inmate’s return less any commutation or diminution of such inmate’s sentence earned, except that the Board of Pardons and Paroles may, in its discretion, determine that such inmate shall forfeit any or all of such earned time, or may be again paroled by said board.

(b) Each parolee or inmate, subject to the provisions of section 18-7, shall be subject to loss of all or any portion of time earned.

(c) Any person who, during the service of a period of special parole imposed in accordance with subdivision (9) of subsection (b) of section 53a-28, has been returned to any institution of the Department of Correction for violation of such person’s parole, may be retained in a correctional institution for a period equal to the unexpired portion of the period of special parole. The total length of the term of incarceration and term of special parole combined shall not exceed the maximum sentence of incarceration authorized for the offense for which the person was convicted.

(1949 Rev., S. 8830; 1957, P.A. 461, S. 5; 1967, P.A. 152, S. 54; P.A. 98-234, S. 4; P.A. 04-234, S. 2, 8; 04-257, S. 84, 124.)

History: 1967 act, effective July 1, 1968, extended section to all correctional institutions rather than State Prison alone, added reference to correction commissioner and deleted restriction of subsection (b) to serious acts of insubordination and refusal to conform to prison or parole regulations; P.A. 98-234 added new Subsec. (c) re the period of time that a person who has violated his special parole may be retained in the institution from which he was paroled; P.A. 04-234 replaced where appearing “the institution from which he was paroled” with “a correctional institution” as the place where a returned inmate may be retained, amended Subsec. (a) to delete reference to a paroled “convict”, amended Subsec. (c) to delete provision re returning an inmate to “the custody of the Commissioner of Correction”, and made technical changes, effective June 8, 2004, and replaced Board of Parole with Board of Pardons and Paroles, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 04-257 amended Subsec. (a) to delete reference to a paroled “convict”, delete provision re returning an inmate to “the custody of the Commissioner of Correction”, replace “the institution from which he was paroled” with “a correctional institution” as the place where a returned inmate may be retained and make technical changes for purposes of gender neutrality, and made a technical change in Subsec. (c), effective June 14, 2004.

Cited. 12 CA 1.

Cited. 4 CS 365. Cited. 11 CS 284. Cited. 13 CS 309. Sentence runs for parolee until date of order for return. 16 CS 22. Cited. Id., 80. When prisoner was returned for violation of parole, term he was to serve should have been computed by subtracting, from time he was to serve, period he had served up to date of order for his return as parole violator. 27 CS 439. When a man is returned to prison for parole violation, he may be held only for the balance of time after the date of the issuance of the order for his return. 32 CS 190.

Subsec. (a):

Cited. 184 C. 222.

Subsec. (c):

When sentencing provisions of Sec. 54-125e(c) and Subsec. conflict, legislature intended the maximum statutory limit in Subsec. to control; defendant’s sentence of ten years of imprisonment followed by ten years of special parole violated Subsec. and was an illegal sentence because total length of terms of imprisonment and special parole combined exceeded maximum term of imprisonment authorized for sexual assault in the second degree by Sec. 53a-35a(6) and Sec. 53a-71(b). 279 C. 527. Sec. 54-125e(c) can be given effect only to the extent that it does not conflict with Subsec. 292 C. 417.