HB520 Alabama 2021 Session

Under existing law, a prisoner does not receive a deduction in his or her sentence for the successful completion of academic, vocational, risk-reducing, or apprenticeship programs

This bill would provide a prisoner with a deduction in his or her sentence upon a successful completion of a qualifying academic, vocational, risk-reducing, or apprenticeship program in certain circumstances

This bill would require the Department of Corrections, with the approval of the Joint Legislative Prison Oversight Committee, to adopt rules for the administration of education incentive time

Relating to corrections; to add a new Article 4 to Title 14 of the Code of Alabama 1975; to provide for a deduction of a prisoner's sentence upon completion of qualifying programs in certain circumstances; to require the Department of Corrections, with the approval of the Joint Legislative Prison Oversight Committee, to adopt rules for the administration of education incentive time; to amend Section 29-2-20, Code of Alabama 1975, to require the Joint Legislative Prison Oversight Committee to approve rules regarding the administration of education incentive time.