good behavior credit
Early release incentive
Good behavior credit is a reduction in prison sentence awarded to inmates who follow rules and avoid disciplinary infractions.
The system incentivizes compliance by allowing prisoners to earn early release—typically shaving days or weeks off their term for each month of good conduct.
Also called good time or good conduct credit: With good behavior credit, he served only eighteen months of his three-year sentence.
- time offScheduled absence from duties
- time servedPeriod already imprisoned
- paroleConditional early release
- early releasePremature freedom from confinement
- getting outAct of leaving
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good behavior creditrule violation
Breach of established guidelines
write-up · disciplinary report · incident report · loss of privileges
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