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PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor
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Ch. 486
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or sentences for which the inmate was awarded diminution credits before the
inmates release on mandatory supervision; providing that an inmate whose
program of mandatory supervision from a term of confinement for the
commission and conviction of a crime of violence is revoked because of the
commission of another crime of violence may not be awarded diminution credits
for work tasks or for special projects for all of the new sentence whether the new
sentence runs concurrently or consecutively to the sentence for which the
inmate was awarded diminution credits before release on mandatory
supervision; and generally relating to diminution credits for inmates under
prohibiting the application of certain diminution credits toward an inmate's
term of confinement for an inmate who is convicted and sentenced to
imprisonment for certain crimes committed while on mandatory supervision
under certain circumstances; clarifying that an inmate may not be awarded
certain diminution credits on a certain sentence after mandatory supervision
has been revoked under certain circumstances; providing for the effect of a
certain provision of law on a certain prohibition against the application of
diminution credits under certain circumstances; requiring the Secretary of
Public Safety and Correctional Services, and the Chairman of the Maryland
Parole Commission, and the Chairman of the State Commission on Criminal
Sentencing Policy to establish a workgroup to conduct a certain study and make
certain recommendations to certain committees of the General Assembly by a
certain date; providing for the application of this Act; and generally relating to
diminution credits and mandatory supervision programs.
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Correctional Services
Section 7-502 and 7-504
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1999 Volume and 2001 Supplement)
Preamble
WHEREAS, The Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services has
studied the issue of diminution of confinement credits and mandatory supervision
releases; and
WHEREAS, In January 2002, the Department issued its Report to the General
Assembly on Diminution of Confinement Credits and Mandatory Supervision
Releases; and
WHEREAS, One of the Department's recommendations is that the General
Assembly provide further guidance as it relates to the application of diminution of
confinement credits and mandatory supervision release; and
WHEREAS, It is the intent of the General Assembly to provide clarification on
the policy of not awarding diminution credits in certain instances when an inmate's
mandatory supervision program is revoked; now, therefore,
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