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Remission: enhanced v ordinary

  • 13-03-2016 1:38pm
    #1
    IsaacWunder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 399 ✭✭


    If you're sentenced to prison, you automatically get 1/4 knocked off your sentence as remission. So if the court gives you a 12 year sentence, you get out in 9.

    Now if you're on enhanced while in jail that gets you a third off at the discretion of the minister for justice.

    My question is: is it a third off the original sentence of 12 years (i.e. enhanced means out in 8 years), or a third off the original sentence after automatic remission (i.e. out in 6 years)?


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  • #2
    brian_t
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,820 ✭✭✭brian_t


    Surely all or any remission would be relative to the original sentence.
    IsaacWunder wrote: »
    If you're sentenced to prison, you automatically get 1/4 knocked off your sentence as remission. So if the court gives you a 12 year sentence, you get out in 9.

    Not if you've been a naughty prisoner.


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