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Kansas Good Time Regulations Enacted After Prisoner's Crime May Not Be Applied Retroactively

Loaded on June 15, 2004 published in Prison Legal News June, 2004, page 40
Filed under: Sentencing, Good Time. Location: Kansas.
Kansas Good Time Regulations Enacted After Prisoner's
Crime May Not Be Applied Retroactively


The Kansas Supreme Court recently
held that an amended version of the Department of Corrections (DOC) regulation governing the award of good time credits cannot be applied to prisoners whose offenses were committed prior to the regulation's ...

 

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