House clears two criminal justice cleanup bills on parole, probation and technical revocations

The Louisiana House on April 29 approved two bills that clarify parole eligibility rules, good-time credits, split sentences and revocations for technical violations.

Representative Kirk Villio, sponsor of House Bill 208 (parole eligibility and good-time clarifications), described the measure as a cleanup of prior crime-session changes. Villio told the chamber the bill does three things: clarify that certain violent and habitual offenders are not entitled to good-time credit; require that offenders who receive split sentences serve their probationary period after release; and confirm that a person must be…