Second, the GAO confirmed that amending the good time credit statute to require that inmates serve no more than 85% of the sentence would better calibrate actual time served with the assumptions underlying the sentencing guidelines consulted at sentencing.
Assemblywoman Margaret Markey, a Queens Democrat who has spent years championing a bill that would eliminate New York's statute of limitations, said she would be amending her bill, or write a supplementary bill, to close the mandatory reporting loopholes.