Salvador v. Department of Corrections

The opinion of the court was delivered by

NEWMAN, P.J.A.D.

This is an appeal by Roberto Salvador, an inmate at East Jersey State Prison, serving a prison term with an eighty-five percent mandatory minimum pursuant to the No Early Release Act (NERA), N.J.S.A. 2C:43-7.2(c), from the denial by the Department of Corrections of his application to have commutation and work credits which, because of the minimum term, cannot be credited to reduce his period of incarceration, awarded instead to reduce his parole period and/or to form a basis for monetary compensation.

On December 17, 1999 Salvador,…