Peters v. State

IRVING, J.,

for the Court.

¶ 1. Henry Peters filed a civil complaint against the Commissioner of the Mississippi Department of Corrections, alleging that Peters’s ‘fifteen percent earned time allowance should not be spent on earned release supervision (ERS). The court below dismissed the complaint for failure to state a claim upon which relief may be granted. Aggrieved, Peters appeals and asserts sixteen issues, all of which can be dispensed with by answering the following question: should the fifteen percent earned time reduce Peters’s sentence and allow him to “flat-time” after serving…