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State of Illinois
2021 and 2022 SB2123 Introduced 2/26/2021, by Sen. Robert Peters SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
| 730 ILCS 5/3-6-3 | from Ch. 38, par. 1003-6-3 |
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Amends the Unified Code of Corrections. Provides that sentence credit may be awarded to a prisoner for credit earned for good conduct, certain program participation, and educational credit, but that the award of credits may not reduce the sentence of the prisoner more than 5 years. Provides that a person serving a term of natural life imprisonment may not earn sentencing credit.
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1 | | AN ACT concerning criminal law.
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2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | | Section 5. The Unified Code of Corrections is amended by |
5 | | changing Section 3-6-3 as follows:
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6 | | (730 ILCS 5/3-6-3) (from Ch. 38, par. 1003-6-3)
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7 | | Sec. 3-6-3. Rules and regulations for sentence credit.
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8 | | (a)(1) The Department of Corrections shall prescribe rules
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9 | | and regulations for awarding and revoking sentence credit for |
10 | | persons committed to the Department which shall
be subject to |
11 | | review by the Prisoner Review Board.
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12 | | (1.5) As otherwise provided by law, sentence credit may be |
13 | | awarded for the following: |
14 | | (A) successful completion of programming while in |
15 | | custody of the Department or while in custody prior to |
16 | | sentencing; |
17 | | (B) compliance with the rules and regulations of the |
18 | | Department; or |
19 | | (C) service to the institution, service to a |
20 | | community, or service to the State. |
21 | | (2) Except as provided in paragraph (4.7) of this |
22 | | subsection (a), the rules and regulations on sentence credit |
23 | | shall provide, with
respect to offenses listed in clause (i), |
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1 | | (ii), or (iii) of this paragraph (2) committed on or after June |
2 | | 19, 1998 or with respect to the offense listed in clause (iv) |
3 | | of this paragraph (2) committed on or after June 23, 2005 (the |
4 | | effective date of Public Act 94-71) or with
respect to offense |
5 | | listed in clause (vi)
committed on or after June 1, 2008 (the |
6 | | effective date of Public Act 95-625)
or with respect to the |
7 | | offense of being an armed habitual criminal committed on or |
8 | | after August 2, 2005 (the effective date of Public Act 94-398) |
9 | | or with respect to the offenses listed in clause (v) of this |
10 | | paragraph (2) committed on or after August 13, 2007 (the |
11 | | effective date of Public Act 95-134) or with respect to the |
12 | | offense of aggravated domestic battery committed on or after |
13 | | July 23, 2010 (the effective date of Public Act 96-1224) or |
14 | | with respect to the offense of attempt to commit terrorism |
15 | | committed on or after January 1, 2013 (the effective date of |
16 | | Public Act 97-990), the following:
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17 | | (i) that a prisoner who is serving a term of |
18 | | imprisonment for first
degree murder or for the offense of |
19 | | terrorism shall receive no sentence
credit and shall serve |
20 | | the entire
sentence imposed by the court;
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21 | | (ii) that a prisoner serving a sentence for attempt to |
22 | | commit terrorism, attempt to commit first
degree murder, |
23 | | solicitation of murder, solicitation of murder for hire,
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24 | | intentional homicide of an unborn child, predatory |
25 | | criminal sexual assault of a
child, aggravated criminal |
26 | | sexual assault, criminal sexual assault, aggravated
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1 | | kidnapping, aggravated battery with a firearm as described |
2 | | in Section 12-4.2 or subdivision (e)(1), (e)(2), (e)(3), |
3 | | or (e)(4) of Section 12-3.05, heinous battery as described |
4 | | in Section 12-4.1 or subdivision (a)(2) of Section |
5 | | 12-3.05, being an armed habitual criminal, aggravated
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6 | | battery of a senior citizen as described in Section 12-4.6 |
7 | | or subdivision (a)(4) of Section 12-3.05, or aggravated |
8 | | battery of a child as described in Section 12-4.3 or |
9 | | subdivision (b)(1) of Section 12-3.05 shall receive no
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10 | | more than 4.5 days of sentence credit for each month of his |
11 | | or her sentence
of imprisonment;
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12 | | (iii) that a prisoner serving a sentence
for home |
13 | | invasion, armed robbery, aggravated vehicular hijacking,
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14 | | aggravated discharge of a firearm, or armed violence with |
15 | | a category I weapon
or category II weapon, when the court
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16 | | has made and entered a finding, pursuant to subsection |
17 | | (c-1) of Section 5-4-1
of this Code, that the conduct |
18 | | leading to conviction for the enumerated offense
resulted |
19 | | in great bodily harm to a victim, shall receive no more |
20 | | than 4.5 days
of sentence credit for each month of his or |
21 | | her sentence of imprisonment;
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22 | | (iv) that a prisoner serving a sentence for aggravated |
23 | | discharge of a firearm, whether or not the conduct leading |
24 | | to conviction for the offense resulted in great bodily |
25 | | harm to the victim, shall receive no more than 4.5 days of |
26 | | sentence credit for each month of his or her sentence of |
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1 | | imprisonment;
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2 | | (v) that a person serving a sentence for gunrunning, |
3 | | narcotics racketeering, controlled substance trafficking, |
4 | | methamphetamine trafficking, drug-induced homicide, |
5 | | aggravated methamphetamine-related child endangerment, |
6 | | money laundering pursuant to clause (c) (4) or (5) of |
7 | | Section 29B-1 of the Criminal Code of 1961 or the Criminal |
8 | | Code of 2012, or a Class X felony conviction for delivery |
9 | | of a controlled substance, possession of a controlled |
10 | | substance with intent to manufacture or deliver, |
11 | | calculated criminal drug conspiracy, criminal drug |
12 | | conspiracy, street gang criminal drug conspiracy, |
13 | | participation in methamphetamine manufacturing, |
14 | | aggravated participation in methamphetamine |
15 | | manufacturing, delivery of methamphetamine, possession |
16 | | with intent to deliver methamphetamine, aggravated |
17 | | delivery of methamphetamine, aggravated possession with |
18 | | intent to deliver methamphetamine, methamphetamine |
19 | | conspiracy when the substance containing the controlled |
20 | | substance or methamphetamine is 100 grams or more shall |
21 | | receive no more than 7.5 days sentence credit for each |
22 | | month of his or her sentence of imprisonment;
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23 | | (vi)
that a prisoner serving a sentence for a second |
24 | | or subsequent offense of luring a minor shall receive no |
25 | | more than 4.5 days of sentence credit for each month of his |
26 | | or her sentence of imprisonment; and
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1 | | (vii) that a prisoner serving a sentence for |
2 | | aggravated domestic battery shall receive no more than 4.5 |
3 | | days of sentence credit for each month of his or her |
4 | | sentence of imprisonment. |
5 | | (2.1) For all offenses, other than those enumerated in |
6 | | subdivision (a)(2)(i), (ii), or (iii)
committed on or after |
7 | | June 19, 1998 or subdivision (a)(2)(iv) committed on or after |
8 | | June 23, 2005 (the effective date of Public Act 94-71) or |
9 | | subdivision (a)(2)(v) committed on or after August 13, 2007 |
10 | | (the effective date of Public Act 95-134)
or subdivision |
11 | | (a)(2)(vi) committed on or after June 1, 2008 (the effective |
12 | | date of Public Act 95-625) or subdivision (a)(2)(vii) |
13 | | committed on or after July 23, 2010 (the effective date of |
14 | | Public Act 96-1224), and other than the offense of aggravated |
15 | | driving under the influence of alcohol, other drug or drugs, |
16 | | or
intoxicating compound or compounds, or any combination |
17 | | thereof as defined in
subparagraph (F) of paragraph (1) of |
18 | | subsection (d) of Section 11-501 of the
Illinois Vehicle Code, |
19 | | and other than the offense of aggravated driving under the |
20 | | influence of alcohol,
other drug or drugs, or intoxicating |
21 | | compound or compounds, or any combination
thereof as defined |
22 | | in subparagraph (C) of paragraph (1) of subsection (d) of
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23 | | Section 11-501 of the Illinois Vehicle Code committed on or |
24 | | after January 1, 2011 (the effective date of Public Act |
25 | | 96-1230),
the rules and regulations shall
provide that a |
26 | | prisoner who is serving a term of
imprisonment shall receive |
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1 | | one day of sentence credit for each day of
his or her sentence |
2 | | of imprisonment or recommitment under Section 3-3-9.
Each day |
3 | | of sentence credit shall reduce by one day the prisoner's |
4 | | period
of imprisonment or recommitment under Section 3-3-9.
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5 | | (2.2) A prisoner serving a term of natural life |
6 | | imprisonment or a
prisoner who has been sentenced to death |
7 | | shall receive no sentence
credit.
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8 | | (2.3) Except as provided in paragraph (4.7) of this |
9 | | subsection (a), the rules and regulations on sentence credit |
10 | | shall provide that
a prisoner who is serving a sentence for |
11 | | aggravated driving under the influence of alcohol,
other drug |
12 | | or drugs, or intoxicating compound or compounds, or any |
13 | | combination
thereof as defined in subparagraph (F) of |
14 | | paragraph (1) of subsection (d) of
Section 11-501 of the |
15 | | Illinois Vehicle Code, shall receive no more than 4.5
days of |
16 | | sentence credit for each month of his or her sentence of
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17 | | imprisonment.
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18 | | (2.4) Except as provided in paragraph (4.7) of this |
19 | | subsection (a), the rules and regulations on sentence credit |
20 | | shall provide with
respect to the offenses of aggravated |
21 | | battery with a machine gun or a firearm
equipped with any |
22 | | device or attachment designed or used for silencing the
report |
23 | | of a firearm or aggravated discharge of a machine gun or a |
24 | | firearm
equipped with any device or attachment designed or |
25 | | used for silencing the
report of a firearm, committed on or |
26 | | after
July 15, 1999 (the effective date of Public Act 91-121),
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1 | | that a prisoner serving a sentence for any of these offenses |
2 | | shall receive no
more than 4.5 days of sentence credit for each |
3 | | month of his or her sentence
of imprisonment.
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4 | | (2.5) Except as provided in paragraph (4.7) of this |
5 | | subsection (a), the rules and regulations on sentence credit |
6 | | shall provide that a
prisoner who is serving a sentence for |
7 | | aggravated arson committed on or after
July 27, 2001 (the |
8 | | effective date of Public Act 92-176) shall receive no more |
9 | | than
4.5 days of sentence credit for each month of his or her |
10 | | sentence of
imprisonment.
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11 | | (2.6) Except as provided in paragraph (4.7) of this |
12 | | subsection (a), the rules and regulations on sentence credit |
13 | | shall provide that a
prisoner who is serving a sentence for |
14 | | aggravated driving under the influence of alcohol,
other drug |
15 | | or drugs, or intoxicating compound or compounds or any |
16 | | combination
thereof as defined in subparagraph (C) of |
17 | | paragraph (1) of subsection (d) of
Section 11-501 of the |
18 | | Illinois Vehicle Code committed on or after January 1, 2011 |
19 | | (the effective date of Public Act 96-1230) shall receive no |
20 | | more than 4.5
days of sentence credit for each month of his or |
21 | | her sentence of
imprisonment. |
22 | | (3) In addition to the sentence credits earned under |
23 | | paragraphs (2.1), (4), (4.1), and (4.7) of this subsection |
24 | | (a), the rules and regulations shall also provide that
the |
25 | | Director may award up to 180 days of earned sentence
credit for |
26 | | good conduct in specific instances as the
Director deems |
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1 | | proper. The good conduct may include, but is not limited to, |
2 | | compliance with the rules and regulations of the Department, |
3 | | service to the Department, service to a community, or service |
4 | | to the State.
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5 | | Eligible inmates for an award of earned sentence credit |
6 | | under
this paragraph (3) may be selected to receive the credit |
7 | | at
the Director's or his or her designee's sole discretion.
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8 | | Eligibility for the additional earned sentence credit under |
9 | | this paragraph (3) shall be based on, but is not limited to, |
10 | | the results of any available risk/needs assessment or other |
11 | | relevant assessments or evaluations administered by the |
12 | | Department using a validated instrument, the circumstances of |
13 | | the crime, any history of conviction for a forcible felony |
14 | | enumerated in Section 2-8 of the Criminal Code of 2012, the |
15 | | inmate's behavior and disciplinary history while incarcerated, |
16 | | and the inmate's commitment to rehabilitation, including |
17 | | participation in programming offered by the Department. |
18 | | The Director shall not award sentence credit under this |
19 | | paragraph (3) to an inmate unless the inmate has served a |
20 | | minimum of 60 days of the sentence; except nothing in this |
21 | | paragraph shall be construed to permit the Director to extend |
22 | | an inmate's sentence beyond that which was imposed by the |
23 | | court. Prior to awarding credit under this paragraph (3), the |
24 | | Director shall make a written determination that the inmate: |
25 | | (A) is eligible for the earned sentence credit; |
26 | | (B) has served a minimum of 60 days, or as close to 60 |
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1 | | days as the sentence will allow; |
2 | | (B-1) has received a risk/needs assessment or other |
3 | | relevant evaluation or assessment administered by the |
4 | | Department using a validated instrument; and |
5 | | (C) has met the eligibility criteria established by |
6 | | rule for earned sentence credit. |
7 | | The Director shall determine the form and content of the |
8 | | written determination required in this subsection. |
9 | | (3.5) The Department shall provide annual written reports |
10 | | to the Governor and the General Assembly on the award of earned |
11 | | sentence credit no later than February 1 of each year. The |
12 | | Department must publish both reports on its website within 48 |
13 | | hours of transmitting the reports to the Governor and the |
14 | | General Assembly. The reports must include: |
15 | | (A) the number of inmates awarded earned sentence |
16 | | credit; |
17 | | (B) the average amount of earned sentence credit |
18 | | awarded; |
19 | | (C) the holding offenses of inmates awarded earned |
20 | | sentence credit; and |
21 | | (D) the number of earned sentence credit revocations. |
22 | | (4)(A) Except as provided in paragraph (4.7) of this |
23 | | subsection (a), the rules and regulations shall also provide |
24 | | that the sentence
credit accumulated and retained under |
25 | | paragraph (2.1) of subsection (a) of
this Section by any |
26 | | inmate during specific periods of time in which such
inmate is |
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1 | | engaged full-time in substance abuse programs, correctional
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2 | | industry assignments, educational programs, behavior |
3 | | modification programs, life skills courses, or re-entry |
4 | | planning provided by the Department
under this paragraph (4) |
5 | | and satisfactorily completes the assigned program as
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6 | | determined by the standards of the Department, shall be |
7 | | multiplied by a factor
of 1.25 for program participation |
8 | | before August 11, 1993
and 1.50 for program participation on |
9 | | or after that date.
The rules and regulations shall also |
10 | | provide that sentence credit, subject to the same offense |
11 | | limits and multiplier provided in this paragraph, may be |
12 | | provided to an inmate who was held in pre-trial detention |
13 | | prior to his or her current commitment to the Department of |
14 | | Corrections and successfully completed a full-time, 60-day or |
15 | | longer substance abuse program, educational program, behavior |
16 | | modification program, life skills course, or re-entry planning |
17 | | provided by the county department of corrections or county |
18 | | jail. Calculation of this county program credit shall be done |
19 | | at sentencing as provided in Section 5-4.5-100 of this Code |
20 | | and shall be included in the sentencing order. However, no |
21 | | inmate shall be eligible for the additional sentence credit
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22 | | under this paragraph (4) or (4.1) of this subsection (a) while |
23 | | assigned to a boot camp
or electronic detention.
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24 | | (B) The Department shall award sentence credit under this |
25 | | paragraph (4) accumulated prior to January 1, 2020 ( the |
26 | | effective date of Public Act 101-440) this amendatory Act of |
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1 | | the 101st General Assembly in an amount specified in |
2 | | subparagraph (C) of this paragraph (4) to an inmate serving a |
3 | | sentence for an offense committed prior to June 19, 1998, if |
4 | | the Department determines that the inmate is entitled to this |
5 | | sentence credit, based upon: |
6 | | (i) documentation provided by the Department that the |
7 | | inmate engaged in any full-time substance abuse programs, |
8 | | correctional industry assignments, educational programs, |
9 | | behavior modification programs, life skills courses, or |
10 | | re-entry planning provided by the Department under this |
11 | | paragraph (4) and satisfactorily completed the assigned |
12 | | program as determined by the standards of the Department |
13 | | during the inmate's current term of incarceration; or |
14 | | (ii) the inmate's own testimony in the form of an |
15 | | affidavit or documentation, or a third party's |
16 | | documentation or testimony in the form of an affidavit |
17 | | that the inmate likely engaged in any full-time substance |
18 | | abuse programs, correctional industry assignments, |
19 | | educational programs, behavior modification programs, life |
20 | | skills courses, or re-entry planning provided by the |
21 | | Department under paragraph (4) and satisfactorily |
22 | | completed the assigned program as determined by the |
23 | | standards of the Department during the inmate's current |
24 | | term of incarceration. |
25 | | (C) If the inmate can provide documentation that he or she |
26 | | is entitled to sentence credit under subparagraph (B) in |
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1 | | excess of 45 days of participation in those programs, the |
2 | | inmate shall receive 90 days of sentence credit. If the inmate |
3 | | cannot provide documentation of more than 45 days of |
4 | | participation in those programs, the inmate shall receive 45 |
5 | | days of sentence credit. In the event of a disagreement |
6 | | between the Department and the inmate as to the amount of |
7 | | credit accumulated under subparagraph (B), if the Department |
8 | | provides documented proof of a lesser amount of days of |
9 | | participation in those programs, that proof shall control. If |
10 | | the Department provides no documentary proof, the inmate's |
11 | | proof as set forth in clause (ii) of subparagraph (B) shall |
12 | | control as to the amount of sentence credit provided. |
13 | | (D) If the inmate has been convicted of a sex offense as |
14 | | defined in Section 2 of the Sex Offender Registration Act, |
15 | | sentencing credits under subparagraph (B) of this paragraph |
16 | | (4) shall be awarded by the Department only if the conditions |
17 | | set forth in paragraph (4.6) of subsection (a) are satisfied. |
18 | | No inmate serving a term of natural life imprisonment shall |
19 | | receive sentence credit under subparagraph (B) of this |
20 | | paragraph (4). |
21 | | Educational, vocational, substance abuse, behavior |
22 | | modification programs, life skills courses, re-entry planning, |
23 | | and correctional
industry programs under which sentence credit |
24 | | may be increased under
this paragraph (4) and paragraph (4.1) |
25 | | of this subsection (a) shall be evaluated by the Department on |
26 | | the basis of
documented standards. The Department shall report |
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1 | | the results of these
evaluations to the Governor and the |
2 | | General Assembly by September 30th of each
year. The reports |
3 | | shall include data relating to the recidivism rate among
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4 | | program participants.
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5 | | Availability of these programs shall be subject to the
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6 | | limits of fiscal resources appropriated by the General |
7 | | Assembly for these
purposes. Eligible inmates who are denied |
8 | | immediate admission shall be
placed on a waiting list under |
9 | | criteria established by the Department.
The inability of any |
10 | | inmate to become engaged in any such programs
by reason of |
11 | | insufficient program resources or for any other reason
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12 | | established under the rules and regulations of the Department |
13 | | shall not be
deemed a cause of action under which the |
14 | | Department or any employee or
agent of the Department shall be |
15 | | liable for damages to the inmate.
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16 | | (4.1) Except as provided in paragraph (4.7) of this |
17 | | subsection (a), the rules and regulations shall also provide |
18 | | that an additional 90 days of sentence credit shall be awarded |
19 | | to any prisoner who passes high school equivalency testing |
20 | | while the prisoner is committed to the Department of |
21 | | Corrections. The sentence credit awarded under this paragraph |
22 | | (4.1) shall be in addition to, and shall not affect, the award |
23 | | of sentence credit under any other paragraph of this Section, |
24 | | but shall also be pursuant to the guidelines and restrictions |
25 | | set forth in paragraph (4) of subsection (a) of this Section.
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26 | | The sentence credit provided for in this paragraph shall be |
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1 | | available only to those prisoners who have not previously |
2 | | earned a high school diploma or a high school equivalency |
3 | | certificate. If, after an award of the high school equivalency |
4 | | testing sentence credit has been made, the Department |
5 | | determines that the prisoner was not eligible, then the award |
6 | | shall be revoked.
The Department may also award 90 days of |
7 | | sentence credit to any committed person who passed high school |
8 | | equivalency testing while he or she was held in pre-trial |
9 | | detention prior to the current commitment to the Department of |
10 | | Corrections. |
11 | | Except as provided in paragraph (4.7) of this subsection |
12 | | (a), the rules and regulations shall provide that an |
13 | | additional 180 days of sentence credit shall be awarded to any |
14 | | prisoner who obtains a bachelor's degree while the prisoner is |
15 | | committed to the Department of Corrections. The sentence |
16 | | credit awarded under this paragraph (4.1) shall be in addition |
17 | | to, and shall not affect, the award of sentence credit under |
18 | | any other paragraph of this Section, but shall also be under |
19 | | the guidelines and restrictions set forth in paragraph (4) of |
20 | | this subsection (a). The sentence credit provided for in this |
21 | | paragraph shall be available only to those prisoners who have |
22 | | not earned a bachelor's degree prior to the current commitment |
23 | | to the Department of Corrections. If, after an award of the |
24 | | bachelor's degree sentence credit has been made, the |
25 | | Department determines that the prisoner was not eligible, then |
26 | | the award shall be revoked. The Department may also award 180 |
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1 | | days of sentence credit to any committed person who earned a |
2 | | bachelor's degree while he or she was held in pre-trial |
3 | | detention prior to the current commitment to the Department of |
4 | | Corrections. |
5 | | Except as provided in paragraph (4.7) of this subsection |
6 | | (a), the rules and regulations shall provide that an |
7 | | additional 180 days of sentence credit shall be awarded to any |
8 | | prisoner who obtains a master's or professional degree while |
9 | | the prisoner is committed to the Department of Corrections. |
10 | | The sentence credit awarded under this paragraph (4.1) shall |
11 | | be in addition to, and shall not affect, the award of sentence |
12 | | credit under any other paragraph of this Section, but shall |
13 | | also be under the guidelines and restrictions set forth in |
14 | | paragraph (4) of this subsection (a). The sentence credit |
15 | | provided for in this paragraph shall be available only to |
16 | | those prisoners who have not previously earned a master's or |
17 | | professional degree prior to the current commitment to the |
18 | | Department of Corrections. If, after an award of the master's |
19 | | or professional degree sentence credit has been made, the |
20 | | Department determines that the prisoner was not eligible, then |
21 | | the award shall be revoked. The Department may also award 180 |
22 | | days of sentence credit to any committed person who earned a |
23 | | master's or professional degree while he or she was held in |
24 | | pre-trial detention prior to the current commitment to the |
25 | | Department of Corrections. |
26 | | (4.5) The rules and regulations on sentence credit shall |
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1 | | also provide that
when the court's sentencing order recommends |
2 | | a prisoner for substance abuse treatment and the
crime was |
3 | | committed on or after September 1, 2003 (the effective date of
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4 | | Public Act 93-354), the prisoner shall receive no sentence |
5 | | credit awarded under clause (3) of this subsection (a) unless |
6 | | he or she participates in and
completes a substance abuse |
7 | | treatment program. The Director may waive the requirement to |
8 | | participate in or complete a substance abuse treatment program |
9 | | in specific instances if the prisoner is not a good candidate |
10 | | for a substance abuse treatment program for medical, |
11 | | programming, or operational reasons. Availability of
substance |
12 | | abuse treatment shall be subject to the limits of fiscal |
13 | | resources
appropriated by the General Assembly for these |
14 | | purposes. If treatment is not
available and the requirement to |
15 | | participate and complete the treatment has not been waived by |
16 | | the Director, the prisoner shall be placed on a waiting list |
17 | | under criteria
established by the Department. The Director may |
18 | | allow a prisoner placed on
a waiting list to participate in and |
19 | | complete a substance abuse education class or attend substance
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20 | | abuse self-help meetings in lieu of a substance abuse |
21 | | treatment program. A prisoner on a waiting list who is not |
22 | | placed in a substance abuse program prior to release may be |
23 | | eligible for a waiver and receive sentence credit under clause |
24 | | (3) of this subsection (a) at the discretion of the Director.
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25 | | (4.6) The rules and regulations on sentence credit shall |
26 | | also provide that a prisoner who has been convicted of a sex |
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1 | | offense as defined in Section 2 of the Sex Offender |
2 | | Registration Act shall receive no sentence credit unless he or |
3 | | she either has successfully completed or is participating in |
4 | | sex offender treatment as defined by the Sex Offender |
5 | | Management Board. However, prisoners who are waiting to |
6 | | receive treatment, but who are unable to do so due solely to |
7 | | the lack of resources on the part of the Department, may, at |
8 | | the Director's sole discretion, be awarded sentence credit at |
9 | | a rate as the Director shall determine. |
10 | | (4.7) On or after January 1, 2018 ( the effective date of |
11 | | Public Act 100-3) this amendatory Act of the 100th General |
12 | | Assembly , sentence credit under paragraph (3), (4), or (4.1) |
13 | | of this subsection (a) may be awarded to a prisoner who is |
14 | | serving a sentence for an offense described in paragraph (2), |
15 | | (2.3), (2.4), (2.5), or (2.6) for credit earned on or after |
16 | | January 1, 2018 ( the effective date of Public Act 100-3) this |
17 | | amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly ; provided, the |
18 | | award of the credits under this paragraph (4.7) shall not |
19 | | reduce the sentence of the prisoner to less than the following |
20 | | amounts: |
21 | | (i) 85% of his or her sentence if the prisoner is |
22 | | required to serve 85% of his or her sentence; or |
23 | | (ii) 60% of his or her sentence if the prisoner is |
24 | | required to serve 75% of his or her sentence, except if the |
25 | | prisoner is serving a sentence for gunrunning his or her |
26 | | sentence shall not be reduced to less than 75%. |
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1 | | (iii) 100% of his or her sentence if the prisoner is |
2 | | required to serve 100% of his or her sentence. |
3 | | (4.8) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the |
4 | | contrary, on or after the effective date of this amendatory |
5 | | Act of the 102nd General Assembly, sentence credit under |
6 | | paragraph (3), (4), or (4.1) of this subsection (a) may be |
7 | | awarded to a prisoner for credit earned prior to or after the |
8 | | effective date of this amendatory Act of the 102nd General |
9 | | Assembly; provided, the award of the credits under this |
10 | | paragraph (4.8) shall not reduce the sentence of the prisoner |
11 | | more than 5 years. A person serving a term of natural life |
12 | | imprisonment may not earn sentencing credit. |
13 | | (5) Whenever the Department is to release any inmate |
14 | | earlier than it
otherwise would because of a grant of earned |
15 | | sentence credit under paragraph (3) of subsection (a) of this |
16 | | Section given at any time during the term, the Department |
17 | | shall give
reasonable notice of the impending release not less |
18 | | than 14 days prior to the date of the release to the State's
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19 | | Attorney of the county where the prosecution of the inmate |
20 | | took place, and if applicable, the State's Attorney of the |
21 | | county into which the inmate will be released. The Department |
22 | | must also make identification information and a recent photo |
23 | | of the inmate being released accessible on the Internet by |
24 | | means of a hyperlink labeled "Community Notification of Inmate |
25 | | Early Release" on the Department's World Wide Web homepage.
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26 | | The identification information shall include the inmate's: |
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1 | | name, any known alias, date of birth, physical |
2 | | characteristics, commitment offense , and county where |
3 | | conviction was imposed. The identification information shall |
4 | | be placed on the website within 3 days of the inmate's release |
5 | | and the information may not be removed until either: |
6 | | completion of the first year of mandatory supervised release |
7 | | or return of the inmate to custody of the Department.
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8 | | (b) Whenever a person is or has been committed under
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9 | | several convictions, with separate sentences, the sentences
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10 | | shall be construed under Section 5-8-4 in granting and
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11 | | forfeiting of sentence credit.
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12 | | (c) The Department shall prescribe rules and regulations
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13 | | for revoking sentence credit, including revoking sentence |
14 | | credit awarded under paragraph (3) of subsection (a) of this |
15 | | Section. The Department shall prescribe rules and regulations |
16 | | for suspending or reducing
the rate of accumulation of |
17 | | sentence credit for specific
rule violations, during |
18 | | imprisonment. These rules and regulations
shall provide that |
19 | | no inmate may be penalized more than one
year of sentence |
20 | | credit for any one infraction.
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21 | | When the Department seeks to revoke, suspend , or reduce
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22 | | the rate of accumulation of any sentence credits for
an |
23 | | alleged infraction of its rules, it shall bring charges
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24 | | therefor against the prisoner sought to be so deprived of
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25 | | sentence credits before the Prisoner Review Board as
provided |
26 | | in subparagraph (a)(4) of Section 3-3-2 of this
Code, if the |
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1 | | amount of credit at issue exceeds 30 days or
when , during any |
2 | | 12-month 12 month period, the cumulative amount of
credit |
3 | | revoked exceeds 30 days except where the infraction is |
4 | | committed
or discovered within 60 days of scheduled release. |
5 | | In those cases,
the Department of Corrections may revoke up to |
6 | | 30 days of sentence credit.
The Board may subsequently approve |
7 | | the revocation of additional sentence credit, if the |
8 | | Department seeks to revoke sentence credit in
excess of 30 |
9 | | days. However, the Board shall not be empowered to review the
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10 | | Department's decision with respect to the loss of 30 days of |
11 | | sentence
credit within any calendar year for any prisoner or |
12 | | to increase any penalty
beyond the length requested by the |
13 | | Department.
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14 | | The Director of the Department of Corrections, in |
15 | | appropriate cases, may
restore up to 30 days of sentence |
16 | | credits which have been revoked, suspended ,
or reduced. Any |
17 | | restoration of sentence credits in excess of 30 days shall
be |
18 | | subject to review by the Prisoner Review Board. However, the |
19 | | Board may not
restore sentence credit in excess of the amount |
20 | | requested by the Director.
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21 | | Nothing contained in this Section shall prohibit the |
22 | | Prisoner Review Board
from ordering, pursuant to Section |
23 | | 3-3-9(a)(3)(i)(B), that a prisoner serve up
to one year of the |
24 | | sentence imposed by the court that was not served due to the
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25 | | accumulation of sentence credit.
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26 | | (d) If a lawsuit is filed by a prisoner in an Illinois or |
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1 | | federal court
against the State, the Department of |
2 | | Corrections, or the Prisoner Review Board,
or against any of
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3 | | their officers or employees, and the court makes a specific |
4 | | finding that a
pleading, motion, or other paper filed by the |
5 | | prisoner is frivolous, the
Department of Corrections shall |
6 | | conduct a hearing to revoke up to
180 days of sentence credit |
7 | | by bringing charges against the prisoner
sought to be deprived |
8 | | of the sentence credits before the Prisoner Review
Board as |
9 | | provided in subparagraph (a)(8) of Section 3-3-2 of this Code.
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10 | | If the prisoner has not accumulated 180 days of sentence |
11 | | credit at the
time of the finding, then the Prisoner Review |
12 | | Board may revoke all
sentence credit accumulated by the |
13 | | prisoner.
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14 | | For purposes of this subsection (d):
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15 | | (1) "Frivolous" means that a pleading, motion, or |
16 | | other filing which
purports to be a legal document filed |
17 | | by a prisoner in his or her lawsuit meets
any or all of the |
18 | | following criteria:
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19 | | (A) it lacks an arguable basis either in law or in |
20 | | fact;
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21 | | (B) it is being presented for any improper |
22 | | purpose, such as to harass or
to cause unnecessary |
23 | | delay or needless increase in the cost of litigation;
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24 | | (C) the claims, defenses, and other legal |
25 | | contentions therein are not
warranted by existing law |
26 | | or by a nonfrivolous argument for the extension,
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1 | | modification, or reversal of existing law or the |
2 | | establishment of new law;
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3 | | (D) the allegations and other factual contentions |
4 | | do not have
evidentiary
support or, if specifically so |
5 | | identified, are not likely to have evidentiary
support |
6 | | after a reasonable opportunity for further |
7 | | investigation or discovery;
or
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8 | | (E) the denials of factual contentions are not |
9 | | warranted on the
evidence, or if specifically so |
10 | | identified, are not reasonably based on a lack
of |
11 | | information or belief.
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12 | | (2) "Lawsuit" means a motion pursuant to Section
116-3 |
13 | | of the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963, a habeas corpus |
14 | | action under
Article X of the Code of Civil Procedure or |
15 | | under federal law (28 U.S.C. 2254),
a petition for claim |
16 | | under the Court of Claims Act, an action under the
federal |
17 | | Civil Rights Act (42 U.S.C. 1983), or a second or |
18 | | subsequent petition for post-conviction relief under |
19 | | Article 122 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963 |
20 | | whether filed with or without leave of court or a second or |
21 | | subsequent petition for relief from judgment under Section |
22 | | 2-1401 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
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23 | | (e) Nothing in Public Act 90-592 or 90-593 affects the |
24 | | validity of Public Act 89-404.
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25 | | (f) Whenever the Department is to release any inmate who |
26 | | has been convicted of a violation of an order of protection |
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1 | | under Section 12-3.4 or 12-30 of the Criminal Code of 1961 or |
2 | | the Criminal Code of 2012, earlier than it
otherwise would |
3 | | because of a grant of sentence credit, the Department, as a |
4 | | condition of release, shall require that the person, upon |
5 | | release, be placed under electronic surveillance as provided |
6 | | in Section 5-8A-7 of this Code. |
7 | | (Source: P.A. 100-3, eff. 1-1-18; 100-575, eff. 1-8-18; |
8 | | 101-440, eff. 1-1-20; revised 8-19-20.)
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