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<section article="gcs" article_name="Correctional Services" number="11-504" title_number="11" title_name="Local Correctional Facilities" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Diminution Credits">
  <level label="a">
    <text>An incarcerated individual who is sentenced to a local correctional facility shall be allowed an initial deduction from the incarcerated individual’s term of confinement.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The deduction described in subsection (a) of this section shall be calculated:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>from the first day of the incarcerated individual’s postsentence commitment to the custody of the local correctional facility to the last day of the incarcerated individual’s maximum term of confinement;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>at the rate of 5 days for each calendar month if the incarcerated individual’s term of confinement includes a consecutive or concurrent sentence for a crime of violence, as defined in § 14–101 of the Criminal Law Article or a crime of manufacturing, distributing, dispensing, or possessing a controlled dangerous substance in violation of § 5–612 or § 5–613 of the Criminal Law Article; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>at the rate of 10 days for each calendar month for all other incarcerated individuals; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>on a prorated basis for any portion of a calendar month.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
