Shannon Breeden and Laura Hochmuth v. Iowa Department of Corrections

WATERMAN, Justice.

This appeal and two others decided today 1 present the question of how to calculate earned-time (good behavior) credit after an incarcerated juvenile felon serving a prison sentence with a mandatory minimum term -is resentenced without the mandatory minimum. According to the counsel for the State, the answer to this question affects the release dates of up to 150 inmates. Sentences subject to a mandatory minimum under Iowa Code section 902.12 (2015) accrue earned-time credit at a slower rate under section 903A.2(1). The offenders and the Iowa Department of Corrections (IDOC)…