Legal Opinion
People v. Brown
California Supreme Court
Decided June 18, 2012No. S181963PublishedCited by 323 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
WERDEGAR, J.
Since 1976, Penal Code section 4019 1 has offered prisoners in local custody the opportunity to earn “conduct credit” against their sentences for good behavior. Conduct credits encourage prisoners to conform to prison regulations, to refrain from criminal and assaultive conduct, and to participate in work and other rehabilitative activities. (People v. Austin (1981) 30 Cal.3d 155, 163 [178 Cal.Rptr. 312, 636 P.2d 1].) For eight months during 2010, a now superseded version of section 4019 2 that was enacted during a state fiscal emergency temporarily increased the rate at…
2Cases cited21 opinions
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