Gallagher v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole

OPINION BY

Senior Judge DOYLE.

This is an appeal by Joseph Gallagher (Parolee) from an order of the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole (Board) denying administrative relief and upholding a recalculation order of the Board that declined to credit pretrial confinement time spent incarcerated on new criminal charges to Parolee’s old criminal sentence.

The following facts are pertinent. Parolee was arrested on new criminal charges, while on parole, on July 26, 1999, and did not post bail. On July 27, 1999, the Board lodged its detainer. Thereafter, on June 28, 2000, Parolee pled guilty to…