Deductions for Inmates Confined in Facilities Other than State Correctional Facilities

An inmate of a state correctional facilitywho hasbeen transferred to a correctional facility operated bythe federalgovernment or another state may be granted deductions from sentence as listed below: (1) Inmates may receive deductions for work, education, or vocation programs provided that participation is documented by the receiving state on a progress report. (2) Inmates may receive deductions for programs in the receiving state only if the program is staff monitored, staff coordinated, and attendance is taken. Further, the program cannot be predominately social in nature and the program should be assessed as to its service to inmates or the community. (3) The responsible staff person shall request that the administrator of the other correctional facility operated by the federal government or another state recommend, where such administrator deems appropriate, that a deduction from sentence be granted via progress report. A written program summary may be required prior to awarding deductions from sentence. (4) The responsible staff person shall record the number of sentence deductions of the inmate into the IMS. (Note: County, Federal and Interstate Unit is responsible for inmates transferred via the Federal Agreement, New England, or Interstate Corrections Agreement; the sending site is responsible for inmatestransferred via Interstate Agreement on Detainers; the committingsite isresponsible forinmates serving concurrent Massachusetts sentences.)