Detar v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole

OPINION BY

Judge LEAVITT.

Clifford L. Detar, Jr., pro se, petitions for review of a decision of the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole (Board) denying Detar’s request for credit toward his recalculated sentence. Detar contends that the Board erred in failing to grant him credit for time spent at the Gateway Rehabilitation Center. We are asked to consider whether the conditions at Gateway were sufficiently custodial in nature that Detar should be given credit on his sentence for time spent at Gateway.

Detar was serving several concurrent seven-year state prison sentences for theft and…