Legal Opinion
Lowe v. Department of Corrections
Michigan Court of Appeals
Decided July 5, 1994No. Docket 138095PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ON REHEARING
Before: Wahls, P.J., and Shepherd and Cavanagh, JJ. Shepherd, J.
This opinion on rehearing concerns the calculation of various credits that are awarded to prisoners in the custody of the Department of Corrections (doc) as an incentive for good behavior. The credits represent days that are subtracted from a prisoner’s term of imprisonment.
Before December 30, 1982, these credits were generally known as "good time” credits. Under MCL 800.33(2); MSA 28.1403(2), as it existed before December 30, 1982, a prisoner who had neither breached prison rules nor violated the laws of this state…
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