[FIREANDICE]

A friend of mine is currently incarcerated in Ohio. In August of 2007, he was sentenced to one year, a Felony 3 for domestic violence. He was recently released in March of 08 on PRC. He wanted to move to Georgia and his PO wouldn't put in the paperwork for an interstate-compact (?), so he left anyway. So needless to say something happened and someone called Ohio and turned him in, so he was sent back to Ohio. How much time do you think he'll get now, he seems to think it won't be more than 90 days...

[JimGunther]

That depends on a lot of factors and, of course, it varies from state to state. I was a parole and probation agent in MD for 7 years and let me say first of all that lotsa states would not accept a case like that for transfer into their state and some states, I believe New York is one, will not allow the transfer of parole cases at all.

You may be aware that a person on parole has been sentenced to a prison term, lets say five years, and they are let out before the five years is up for such things as good behavior, overcrowding and vocational credits, etc. In my state a parolee will serve about one-third of his term if he causes no problems on the inside. But he will serve the rest of the sentence on parol until he reaches the five years he was originally sentenced to.

So, at least in my state, a person could serve the rest of their parole time, up to the max date, in prison for violation of parole. I have only seen this happen when serious new charges are acquired while on parole.

You said while in the other state "something happened." I hope it wasn't a new charge or a new conviction. People who commit crimes while on parole normally serve more jail time for the new offense than someone else would, and then have to serve more time for violating the parole.

Most technical violations of parole that do not involve new charges that I have seen have resulted in the parolee being sentenced to the amount of time they spent in jail waiting for the parole violation hearing.