Youngkin wants to walk back earned sentence credit expansions in state budget

Gov. Glenn Youngkin speaking with reporters outside the Capitol Building on March 7, 2024. (Nathaniel Cline/Virginia Mercury)

Gov. Glenn Youngkin is doing an about-face on a budget proposal he agreed to last year that expanded the amount of credits incarcerated people with good behavior can earn to shorten their prison sentences.

Earned sentence credits allow incarcerated people to trim the length of time they serve behind bars by earning the credits through completing various educational and training programs while maintaining good behavior. A 2020 law expanded the program to allow certain inmates to earn 15 days of credits for every 30 days served. The program’s start date was delayed and, once Youngkin became governor in 2022, he blocked it through a previous budget amendment. A few GOP lawmakers also unsuccessfully sought to repeal it…

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