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| How inmates earn time off their sentences |
| By thenewstribune.com- Jordan Schrader |
| Published: 01/20/2016 |
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Brian Funk left the state prison system Jan. 13, 2014, having spent half his life behind bars. Emerging into an unfamiliar world of high-speed Internet and mobile technology — “I have an iPhone right now and I just push a button and ask it a question,” he marveled — Funk still managed to put his life in order. He found a good-paying job at a wastewater treatment plant. He married. He helped save the life of a soccer teammate who suffered a cardiac arrest last year. Yet if not for the chance to knock time off his sentence, Funk would still be in prison today. Inmates don’t usually serve the entire sentence handed down by a court. Most can and do have their time shortened by as much as a third. Of those released last year and eligible for that 33 percent time off, more than 59 percent received the full reduction. Read More. |
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