32-n Parole in Michigan

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32-N. Parole in Michigan

If you are serving an indeterminate sentence in a Michigan state prison, and you have served your minimum sentence minus any allowances (such as good time or a disciplinary credit), the Michigan state Parole Board may grant you parole at its discretion.272 You may be granted "special parole" before you finish serving your minimum term, if your sentencing judge gives written approval.273

If you are serving a sentence for a drug offense, you may be eligible for parole before your minimum term is over-after half your minimum sentence, after five years, after ten years, or after seventeen and a half years-depending on the severity of your offense.274

If you are serving a life sentence, you may still be eligible for parole, unless you were convicted of first degree murder, adulterating medicine/drugs or selling adulterated medicine/drugs, explosives-related offenses, or criminal sexual conduct.275 You may become eligible for parole from a life sentence within as few as ten years, depending on the crime for which you were convicted.276 See Section 791.234(8) of the Michigan Compiled Laws for additional conditions that will apply.

If you have been sentenced for consecutive terms, you become eligible for parole when you have served the total time of the added minimum terms, minus any good time and disciplinary credits, if you are not subject to added disciplinary time.277 If you have remaining consecutive terms to serve and have not received added disciplinary time while in prison, the Parole Board is allowed to terminate the remainder of the sentence you are currently serving once you have served the minimum term of your present sentence.278

The Michigan Parole Board will not grant you parole until it is satisfied that you made arrangements for employment, education, and any necessary mental health or medical care.279 You must have earned your high school diploma or GED if you were not employed when you committed the crime, unless you were sentenced before December 15, 1998, or your minimum sentence was less than two years.280

The Parole Board must interview you at least one month before your minimum sentence has expired, minus applicable good time and disciplinary credits and as long as you are not subject to disciplinary time.281 However, the Parole Board does not have to...

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