In re Keith

The petitioner, after indictment, on August 28, 1931, entered a plea of guilty to the crime of attempted forgery, second degree, alleged to have been committed on June 29, 1931. Thereupon a definite sentence of seven and one-half years was imposed and petitioner was received thereunder at Sing Sing Prison on August 31, 1931.

*189His grievance, in substance, is that under section 230 of the Correction Law, which is the statute governing the earning of commutation and compensation by prisoners, he is not accorded the right to earn as great an amount of commutation and compensation as is permitted to…