Fordham v. Commonwealth, Department of Corrections

OPINION BY

Judge PELLEGRINI.

Before this Court in our original jurisdiction are preliminary objections filed by the Department of Corrections (Department) to a petition for review filed by Christopher P. Fordham (Fordham) claiming that the “good time” credit he earned during a federal prison sentence pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3624(b) 1 should be credited to a concurrent Pennsylvania sentence he is serving. Because Pennsylvania only permits “time served” to satisfy a sentence, we sustain the Department’s preliminary objections.

On February 11, 1999, Fordham received a 120-month federal prison…