In the past, if one of our clients was sentenced to the Illinios Department of Corrections (IDOC), they would have to wait 61 days to get any good time credit applied to their sentence. No more! As of August 30th, 2009, good time credit will now come through in about two weeks. As a result of this change in policy, our clients sentenced to one year IDOC will come home in about two weeks. This information was verified with the IDOC legal staff before being posted but you may wish to confirm this with IDOC before you advise clients.
Important Update 12/15/09:
Please be advised that the office has been informed by the Illinois Department of Corrections that it will now hold people for 61 days on a 1 year sentence. Recently they had been holding people for 15 days on a 1 year sentence. A 61 day sentence means that these clients will probably be transferred from the Stateville intake center to another institution before they are released. When they were being held for 15 days, they were being held the entire time at Stateville and then released. All previous rules regarding time served in the Cook County Jail prior to the penitentiary sentence are still in effect.
Mark Solock
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