New Hampshire Revised Statutes
N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 651:18 (2026)
Place; Reduction in Sentence
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651:18 Place; Reduction in Sentence. –
I. Persons liable to commitment to a correctional facility for any offense shall be committed to the county correctional facility in the county in which the crime was committed.
II. Any prisoner whose conduct while in the custody of the superintendent of a county correctional facility has been meritorious may be issued a permit and discharged by the superintendent of the county department of corrections when he has served 2/3 of his minimum sentence, provided it shall appear to the superintendent to be a reasonable probability that he will remain at liberty without violating the law and will conduct himself as a good citizen.
I. Persons liable to commitment to a correctional facility for any offense shall be committed to the county correctional facility in the county in which the crime was committed.
II. Any prisoner whose conduct while in the custody of the superintendent of a county correctional facility has been meritorious may be issued a permit and discharged by the superintendent of the county department of corrections when he has served 2/3 of his minimum sentence, provided it shall appear to the superintendent to be a reasonable probability that he will remain at liberty without violating the law and will conduct himself as a good citizen.
Source. 1971, 518:1. 1973, 370:32. 1988, 89:31. 1991, 316:1. 2003, 237:14, eff. July 7, 2003.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 5
cases, 1978–2014 · leading case: State v. Philbrick, 499 A.2d 1341 (N.H. 1985).
State v. Philbrick, 499 A.2d 1341 (N.H. 1985). “No person serving the minimum mandatory sentence under this section shall be discharged pursuant to authority granted under RSA 651:18, released pursuant to authority granted under RSA 651:19, or in any manner, except as provided in RSA 623:1, prevented from serving the full…”
State v. Wentworth, 395 A.2d 858 (N.H. 1978). “RSA 651:18. The State admits that the sentence in this and the related cases arising out of the Seabrook demonstrations may be higher than those usually imposed in ordinary criminal trespass cases and are substantially higher than those imposed by the district court from which…”
State v. Edson, 889 A.2d 420 (N.H. 2005). “See RSA *49 651:2, II-e (1996) (a disciplinary period of 150 days is added to each year of a State Prison minimum sentence, to be reduced upon good conduct as provided in RSA 651-A:22); RSA 651:18 (1996) (amended 2003) (house of correction inmate may be released after serving…”
State of New Hampshire v. Theadore Mitchell, 166 N.H. 288 (N.H. 2014). “See RSA 651:18, II (2007). The State concedes that, in light of our decision in State v.”
State v. Dumont, 451 A.2d 1286 (N.H. 1982). “The defendant’s six-month term, likely to be reduced to four months of actual confinement under RSA 651:18, amounts to one-thirtieth of the possible maximum term.”
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