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Attorney General's Office.  AGO Opinion 93093  October 29, 1993
Opinion 93093  Jail Good Time  Ellen L. Totzke Hall County
Attorney  Don Stenberg, Attorney General Marie C. Pawol,
Assistant Attorney General  You have inquired about the effect
of LB 113 passed in the 1993 Legislature, which revises Neb.
Rev. Star. ~ 47-502 as follows:  47-502. Person sentenced to
jail; sentence reductions authorized. Any person sentenced to a
city or county jail shall have his or her term reduced seven
days for each t-we~ fourteen consecutive days during which he or
she has not committed any breach of discipline or other
violation of jail regulations. The reductions authorized by this
section shall be granted at the end of each period often we see
fourteen days, with such periods to run consecutively from the
date of confinement following sente