Offender Sentence Types

Administrative Monitoring - a form of monitoring beyond the end of the term of supervision in which the only remaining condition of supervision not completed is the payment of financial obligations. To qualify to transition to administrative monitoring: 1) the offense date must be on or after 01/01/2011, 2) the case must be closed with a successful closure code, 3) the case must be a probation, parole, YOA, or CSP sentence type, and 4) the case must have outstanding financial obligations.

Community Supervision - A release program for offenders who have been sentenced to a “No Parole” offense and have served 85% of their sentence at the SC Department of Corrections (SCDC). A “No Parole” offense is a class A, B, or C felony or an offense exempt from classification as enumerated in Section 16-1-10(d), which is punishable by a maximum term of 20 years or more. Individuals who committed one of these crimes on or after January 1, 1996, are not eligible for parole consideration at any time during their sentence. Offenders released to the Community Supervision Program have a two-year period of supervision. If at any time they violate the terms of supervision, a Circuit Court Judge may revoke any part of the remaining incarcerative portion of the sentence for up to one year at a time.

Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity (NGRI) - A special type of supervision for offenders found not guilty by reason of insanity but not in need of hospitalization.

Parole - a conditional release - granted by the Board of Paroles and Pardons- of an offender into the community under the supervision of the SC Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services.

Straight Probation - A judicial act of grace or clemency that allows a person convicted of a crime to avoid imprisonment, or at least to avoid some part of the term of imprisonment that might be imposed under the sentence, by suspending the sentence and placing the offender on supervision in the community.

Conditional Discharge - Refers to offenders who have been placed on probation by the Court, and who have entered a plea of guilty or have been found guilty in trial, but the Court, without entering a judgement of guilt and with the consent of the accused, defers further proceedings and places him or her on probation upon terms and conditions as the Court requires.  

Suspended Probation - Refers to offenders currently under supervision with the Department for multiple probation cases in which the time of the cases runs concurrently.

Split Probation - sentence type in which a period of incarceration was ordered and the offender must complete the rest of the sentence on probation.

Supervised Furlough 2 - An early release program that allows certain inmates to be released into the community to serve the last six months of their sentence. (Only inmates who have an offense that was committed on or after June 14, 1993 are eligible.)

Supervised Furlough 2A - An early release program which allows certain inmates to be released into the community to serve the last six months of their sentence. Most are required to be on Electronic Monitoring for the duration of their furlough. The SCDC screens and approves all inmates for this program. (Only inmates who have an offense that was committed on or after June 13, 1983 and before June 14, 1993 are eligible; Other criteria must be met as well in order for the inmate to be released to the Supervised Furlough II-A Program.)

Supervised Reentry Program (SRP) - An inmate, who is not required to participate in a community supervision program shall be placed on reentry supervision with the department before the expiration of the inmate’s release date. Inmates who have been incarcerated for a minimum of two years shall be released to reentry supervision 180 days before their release date. For an inmate whose sentence includes probation, the period of reentry supervision is reduced by the term of probation.

Jessie’s Law - Imposes a mandatory minimum of 25 years in prison for sex predators and mandates GPS monitoring for sex offenders convicted of certain offenses. This law gives SCDPPPS jurisdiction for all offenders placed on GPS; Requires mandatory placement on GPS if convicted of criminal sexual conduct with a minor, 1st or lewd act with a minor, criminal sexual conduct 3rd with a minor; Allows for anyone placed on GPS to petition the court after 10 years to be removed from GPS.