Definitions

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Sec. 0.5. The following definitions apply throughout this chapter:

(1) "Accrued time" means the amount of time that a person is imprisoned or confined.

(2) "Credit time" means the sum of a person's accrued time, good time credit, and educational credit.

(3) "Educational credit" means a reduction in a person's term of imprisonment or confinement awarded for participation in an educational, vocational, rehabilitative, or other program. The term includes an individualized case management plan.

(4) "Good time credit" means a reduction in a person's term of imprisonment or confinement awarded for the person's good behavior while imprisoned or confined.

(5) "Individualized case management plan" means educational credit which consists of a plan designed to address an incarcerated person's risk of recidivism, and may include:

(A) addiction recovery treatment;

(B) mental health treatment;

(C) vocational education programming;

(D) adult basic education, a high school or high school equivalency diploma, a college diploma, and any other academic educational goal; or

(E) any other programming or activity that encourages productive pursuits while a person is incarcerated and that may reduce the person's likelihood to recidivate after the person's release from incarceration.

As added by P.L.74-2015, SEC.30. Amended by P.L.106-2020, SEC.2.


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