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A Miscalculation That Will Cost You Time In Prison

By Walin & Klarich

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Imagine doing your time in prison, thinking you are going to be released on a certain date, and then that day comes and goes and you are still in prison. This cannot happen, right? Well, believe it or not, it is happening in California! A recent study found that as many as 33,000 state inmates served longer sentences than they should have. Meanwhile, another smaller study found that of the 679 inmates randomly selected, 354 of them were on track to overstay their prison sentence a combined 104 years! So, why is this happening? It is happening because these inmates are not being credited with the appropriate amount of time to be deducted from their prison sentence, as a result of working in the prisons or for good behavior (commonly referred to as ?good time/work time?)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Southern California Criminal Defense Blog on April 08, 2008 (boomark / email).

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