Harbold v. Carson

Opinion by

President Judge Bowman,

Although the pleadings before us disclose some factual differences, those essential to disposition of the single issue raised by defendants’ preliminary objections permit us to proceed. This opinion is limited to the question of whether state correctional officials can refuse to give an inmate who escapes or is absent without permission of the authorities credit against his or her sentence for the period of unauthorized absence, even though said inmate was not convicted of escape, prison breach, or similar crime.

*419James W. Harbold (plaintiff) was sentenced to…