Sec. 0.5. The following definitions apply throughout this chapter:
(1) “Accrued time” means the amount of time that a person is imprisoned or confined. In determining the number of days a person has been imprisoned or confined, a partial calendar day is considered to be one (1) calendar day.
(2) “Calendar day” means the period of elapsed time that begins at midnight and ends twenty-four (24) hours later at the next midnight.
(3) “Credit time” means the sum of a person’s accrued time, good time credit, and educational credit.
(4) “Educational credit” means a reduction in a person’s term of imprisonment or confinement awarded for participation in an educational, vocational, rehabilitative, or other program. The term includes an individualized case management plan.
(5) “Good time credit” means a reduction in a person’s term of imprisonment or confinement awarded for the person’s good behavior while imprisoned or confined.
(6) “Individualized case management plan” means educational credit which consists of a plan designed to address an incarcerated person’s risk of recidivism, and may include:
(A) addiction recovery treatment;
(B) mental health treatment;
(C) vocational education programming;
(D) adult basic education, a high school or high school equivalency diploma, a college diploma, and any other academic educational goal; or
(E) any other programming or activity that encourages productive pursuits while a person is incarcerated and that may reduce the person’s likelihood to recidivate after the person’s release from incarceration.
As added by P.L.74-2015, SEC.30. Amended by P.L.106-2020, SEC.2; P.L.45-2022, SEC.11.