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Committee reviews expanding earned-time credits to parolees, flags victim-notification and legal hurdles
Summary
A Justice Oversight committee reviewed whether the Department of Corrections'earned-time program should be expanded to parolees and to include educational credits, and whether the DOC victim-notification system could support such changes. Members highlighted due-process questions and scheduled testimony for Oct. 16.
Speaker 1, an unnamed committee member, opened a Justice Oversight meeting by saying the panel will study whether the Department of Corrections'(DOC) earned-time program should be expanded to parolees and whether educational credits should be credited toward sentence reductions for people in DOC custody or on community supervision.
The committee'which does not itself change statute or Parole Board rules'was asked to gather evidence and make recommendations. Speaker 2 told the panel the review will examine two linked questions: whether parolees should be eligible for earned time, and whether educational achievements (trade certificates, bachelor'or graduate degrees) should carry additional earned-time credits. "One of the things that this committee has to do is review the current earned time program and whether it should be…
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