Arkansas Code Title 12. Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs § 12-29-201. Meritorious good time

(e)(1) Meritorious good time shall apply to an inmate's transfer eligibility date from the Division of Correction or a community correction facility.

(2) Meritorious good time shall under no circumstances reduce an inmate's time served in prison by more than one-half ( 1/2 ) of the percentage required by law for transfer eligibility.

(3) Meritorious good time shall under no circumstances reduce an inmate's confinement in a community correction facility by more than one-half ( 1/2 ).

(f)(1) The Division of Correction or the Division of Community Correction shall determine a date on which the inmate who has acquired the maximum amount of meritorious good time necessary is to be administratively transferred to a less restrictive placement or supervision level within the Division of Community Correction.

(2) This date will be determined in accordance with the policies developed by the Arkansas Sentencing Commission within the parameters allowed by law.

(g)(1) Inmates under sentence of death or life imprisonment without parole shall not be eligible for meritorious good time under this subchapter but may be pardoned or have their sentences commuted by the Governor, as provided by law.

(2) Inmates sentenced to life imprisonment shall not receive meritorious good time calculated on their sentences unless the sentence is commuted to a term of years by executive clemency.

(3) Upon commutation, the inmate shall be eligible to receive meritorious good time at the rate established by this subchapter.