Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 001 - Governor's Office › Sub-Agency 0001 - Good Time Allowance for Inmates of Penitentiary, Honor Farm › Chapter 0 - GOOD TIME ALLOWANCES FOR INMATES AND PAROLEES OF THE WYOMING DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS › Section 0-2 - Definitions

Current through July 13, 2024
(a) "Board" means the Wyoming Board of
				Parole.
(b) "Director" means the
				director of the WDOC.
(c)
				"Especially proper and helpful attitude, and exemplary conduct and behavior"
				includes but is not limited to outstanding adherence to the rules of the
				institution and compliance with directions or recommendations regarding work
				assignments or vocational, educational, rehabilitative or treatment programs,
				and a marked demonstration of pro-social behavior in the prison
				setting.
(d) "Evidentiary hearing"
				includes hearings pursuant to the WDOC Code of Inmate Discipline, Board
				revocation hearings, county jail hearings, WDOC jail and ACC sanction hearings,
				judicial civil or criminal hearings or trials or other hearings providing at
				least the minimal procedural steps required for removal of previously earned
				good time or withholding of good time towards credit for time served in county
				jail including, but not limited to, prior notice of the hearing and of the
				allegations, opportunity to hear and present evidence in person and to confront
				witnesses and a decision by an impartial decision maker. Hearings conducted by
				the Board and WDOC are exempt from the hearing and appeal procedures
				established in the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act.
(e) "Good time allowance" is a reduction of
				the minimum and maximum sentence of an inmate in the amount of up to fifteen
				(15) days per month for each month served on a sentence as an inmate, to
				include the inmate's credit for jail time served in accordance with the
				inmate's Judgment and Sentence and any time served in the county jail from the
				date of sentence until transfer to a WDOC facility. Good time may be awarded at
				the discretion of the Warden based on an inmate's proper and helpful attitude,
				conduct and behavior. An inmate serving a life sentence or a sentence of death
				is not eligible for good time allowances. The granting of good time is a matter
				of grace and not that of a right of inmates.
(f) "Inmate" means an individual who is
				serving a sentence of incarceration committing him/her to the custody of the
				WDOC, who has not been released to probation or parole, and who is housed in a
				facility which is operated for the purpose of housing convicted
				criminals.
(g) "Parole good time
				allowance" is a reduction of the maximum sentence of a parolee in the amount of
				up to twenty (20) days per month for each month served on parole. Parole good
				time may be awarded at the discretion of the Board based on a parolee's
				compliance with the conditions of parole. The granting of parole good time is a
				matter of grace and not that of a right of parolees.
(h) "Parolee" means an individual who is on
				parole status pursuant to an order of the Board.
(i) "Proper and helpful attitude, conduct and
				behavior" includes, but is not limited to, adherence to an individualized case
				plan, participation in work, education, vocational programs, job training,
				treatment or rehabilitative programs as recommended by WDOC, the Board or the
				sentencing court and adherence to the rules of the institution.
(j) "Special good time allowance" is a
				reduction of the minimum sentence of an inmate in addition to the monthly good
				time allowance authorized herein. Special good time may be awarded at the
				discretion of the Board within limits set forth herein based on an inmate's
				especially proper and helpful attitude and exemplary conduct and behavior. The
				granting of special good time is a matter of grace and not that of a right of
				inmates.
(k) "Warden" means the
				chief administrator of a WDOC correctional facility.
(l) "WDOC" means the Wyoming Department of
				Corrections.