Smith v. State, Department of Corrections

OPINION

MATTHEWS, Justice.

Once prisoners serve their sentences taking into account whatever time credits they have accumulated for good behavior they must be released. 1 Prisoners who have been sentenced to a term of two years or more are released to the custody of the parole board for a period equivalent to their accumulated good behavior time. This is called a mandatory parole release. 2 The parole board imposes standard conditions and, in some cases, supplemental conditions of parole on mandatory parolees. Appellant, Denny Bynum, a mandatory parolee, challenges the regulations and…