H. B. 2019
(By Delegates Coleman and Stemple)
[Introduced January 13, 1999; referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary.]
A BILL to amend and reenact section eighteen, article twelve,
chapter sixty-two of the code of West Virginia, one thousand
nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to probation
and parole; and removing credit for good conduct when
determining a period of parole.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section eighteen, article twelve, chapter sixty-two of
the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one,
as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 12. PROBATION AND PAROLE.
§62-12-18. Period of parole; discharge.
The period of parole shall be the maximum of any sentence,
less deductions for good conduct and work as provided by law, for
which the paroled prisoner, at the time of release, was subject to imprisonment under his or her definite or indeterminate
sentence, as the case may be: Provided, That any time after a
paroled prisoner has been on parole for a period of one year from
the date of his or her release, the board may, when in its
judgment the ends of parole have been attained and the best
interests of the state and the paroled prisoner will be served
thereby, release the parolee from further supervision and
discharge him or her from parole: Provided, further however,
That no prisoner to serve a life term of imprisonment and
released on parole shall may be discharged from supervision and
parole in a period less than five years from the date of his or
her release on parole.
No prisoner on parole who has violated the terms of his or
her release on parole by confession to, or being convicted of, in
any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the
territorial possessions of the United States, the crime of
treason, murder, armed robbery, rape, sodomy or incest, shall may
be discharged from parole. A paroled prisoner serving a sentence
in any penitentiary of another state or the United States may,
except in the enumerated crimes, be discharged from parole while
so serving his or her sentence in said the penitentiary, or be
continued on parole or returned to West Virginia as a parole
violator, in the discretion of the parole board.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to remove from a period
of parole any credit for good conduct.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken
from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language
that would be added.