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30:4-140.    Reduction schedule for minimum-maximum sentences
    For every year or fractional part of a year of sentence imposed upon any person committed to any State correctional institution for a minimum-maximum term there shall be remitted to him from both the maximum and minimum term of his sentence, for continuous orderly deportment, the progressive time credits indicated in the schedule herein.  When a sentence contains a fractional part of a year in either the minimum or maximum thereof, then time credits in reduction of such fractional part of a year shall be calculated at the rate set out in the schedule for each full month of such fractional part of a year of  sentence.  No time credits shall be calculated as provided for herein on time  served by any person in custody between his arrest and the imposition of sentence.  In case of any flagrant misconduct the board of managers may declare  a forfeiture of the time previously remitted, either in whole or in part, as to  them shall seem just.

                                  Schedule

  

              A                      B                      C

                              Progressive Credits   Credits for Each Full

                                for Minimum and      Month of Fractional

           Minimum and         Maximum Sentences      Part of a Year in

        Maximum Sentences           in Years         Excess of Column A

             in Years                (days)                (days)

  

               1                       72                    7

                 2                      156                    8

                 3                      252                    8

                 4                      348                    8

                 5                      444                    8

                 6                      540                    8

                 7                      636                   10

                 8                      756                   10

                 9                      876                   10

                10                      996                   10

                11                    1,116                   10

                12                    1,236                   11

                13                    1,368                   11

                14                    1,500                   11

                15                    1,632                   11

                16                    1,764                   11

                17                    1,896                   12

                18                    2,040                   12

                19                    2,184                   12

                20                    2,328                   12

                21                    2,472                   12

                22                    2,616                   13

                23                    2,772                   13

                24                    2,928                   13

                25                    3,084                   15

                26                    3,264                   15

                27                    3,444                   15

                28                    3,624                   15

                29                    3,804                   15

                30                    3,984                   16

  

   Any sentence in excess of 30 years shall be reduced by time credits for continuous orderly deportment at the rate of 192 days for each such additional year or 16 days for each full month of any fractional part of a year.  Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to limit or affect a convict's eligibility for  parole consideration as provided for in section 10, chapter 84, P.L.1948, as  amended, in any situation where the sentence or consecutive sentences imposed upon a convict shall exceed 25 years.

   Amended by L.1957, c. 27, p. 52, s. 1.