Iowa Code
Iowa Code § 356.46 (2026)
Time off for good behavior
✓ Iowa Code 2026 (laws through the 2025 session)
Find cases:
SyfertCases citing this section
IA-LEGlegis.iowa.gov
JustiaTitle on Justia
CornellLII Search
CasesGoogle Scholar
Every prisoner in the county jail may, upon the recommendation of the sheriff or person in charge of the detention of the prisoner, and at the discretion of the sentencing judge, receive a reduction of sentence in an amount to be determined by the judge, if:
1. No infraction of the rules of discipline of the county jail or of the laws of the state has been recorded against the prisoner since the beginning of the prisoner’s incarceration; and
2. The prisoner has performed in a faithful manner the duties assigned to the prisoner. [C73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §356.46] 83 Acts, ch 78, §1 \n
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1
case, 2015–2015 · leading case: State of Iowa v. James Lee Moore, No. 14-1154 (Iowa Ct. App. Apr. 8, 2015).
State of Iowa v. James Lee Moore, No. 14-1154 (Iowa Ct. App. Apr. 8, 2015). “2 Iowa Code section 356.46 provides in part, “Every prisoner in the county jail may .”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the
Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and
treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.