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Good Behavior

Interview with Seth, Clark and Lisa

JM: Did you get off early based on good behavior?
Seth: yes they gave me 15% off for good time or a year and couple months
Clark: In Indiana, only people serving time in state prison facilities are eligible to have their sentence reduced and 'get off early'. In these prison facilities it is possible to have up to twice the credit for every day served, effectively halving your sentence. In the jail facilities, some people would go into special programs such as Substance Abuse class so that it looked better to their case manager when they would later be transferred to prison or during sentencing. Most of the people in the jail facility were just there awaiting sentencing. In my case, I was awarded time served credit that would have went towards my total time sentenced had I spent the whole 1.5 year sentence in the jail or a prison facility but it doesn't count towards time ordered served on probation. I did receive a discharge from probation early for good behavior. I was able to get off of probation almost 4 months early, so I only served 1 year and 2 months on probation total.
Lisa: No I believe that was not availible at the jail

JM: What is the most time off you can receive for good behavior?
Seth: 15% federal or 50% state
Clark: If serving your sentence in an Indiana state prison facility, you can serve only half of your sentence if you have good behavior. There are also other programs that allow for additional time reductions, such as earning a degree/GED, etc. Not sure how much these qualify a person for.
Lisa: I am not really sure

JM: What types of actions do you need to avoid in order to get time off? Did you ever witness somebody losing time off for good behavior?
Seth: basically and thing you would do on the streets plus listen to the guard's don't fight don't get caught gambling avoid the people who smoke when its snuck in
Clark: I did see some people getting time added on for acting poorly but never seeing anyone losing good behavior time, again as most of these people were awaiting their own sentencing and in Indiana people do not get good behavior credit while in a county jail facility. Things like getting in fights with other inmates, getting caught with jail paraphernalia (i.e. tobacco/drugs) were enough to be removed from the cell block and placed into isolation for a period (a week to a month usually, depending on severity of offense) and in some cases, additional charges were brought.
Lisa: I know some of yhe wome went to lockup because of there behaviors. I don't know whether they lost any of there time or not

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