My husband was parole violated on 1/28/04 and sent back to serve 11 months (instead of 6 months) which meant that he would come home in 12/04. While my husband was serving his time for the parole violation, he had charges pending in another county. He went to court for those charges on 4/05/04 and the judge sentenced him to 84 months (to run concurrent) in DOC. My husband called and told me that he received a time card that said his release date would be 5/10/06. We are trying to figure out why his release date would move up to 5/10/06 instead of staying at 12/04. We thought that since his new charge sentence (7 years) did not outrun his discharge date (which is in 8 more years) that he would only do his parole violation sentence and be able to come home in 12/04 since it is ran concurrent. My question is when he got the time ran concurrent, what does that mean and how does it affect his PE/TE date?

He has to do a certain amount of time for the new charge before being released. Not sure what he was convicted of, but he would have to serve that convictions minimum before being eligible for parole. Running the charges concurrently doesn't add time on to the sentence (he doesn't have to serve the 7 years ON TOP of the 8 he was previously convicted of) & he will actually be finished with his time on the new charges before his old ones.

His TE date will be changed to whatever date is the minimum he has to serve on the new charges. If he got 7 years & he has to serve 20% of that time, he would have to serve a little over a year (I think I did that right).

Looks like, from what you say, his new TE date is 5/10/06. That means he won't be eligible for parole until then. Look him up on the ADC website (http://www.state.ar.us/doc click on inmate search). That will show you his TE date & all.

Good luck!

JC

love-austin.
how devastating! I'm so sorry! Please keep us posted.