Young v. Pa. Bd. of Prob. & Parole

OPINION BY PRESIDENT JUDGE LEAVITT

Otto Young petitions for review of an adjudication of the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole (Parole Board) denying his request for administrative relief from one of the terms of his recommitment as a convicted parole violator. Young contends that the Parole Board erred by revoking sentence credit it had previously awarded him in a prior recommitment. Concluding that the Prisons and Parole Code (Parole Code), 61 Pa. C.S. §§ 101 - 6309, did not confer upon the Parole Board the discretion to revoke its award of sentence credit, we reverse the Parole…