P.R. Laws tit. 4, § 1163

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§ 1163. Punishment for bad conduct

Any bad conduct shall be punished by reducing or cancelling the credits for good conduct, and if it is repetitive or of a serious nature, the person shall be submitted to a greater reduction, or the partial or total cancellation of credits.

No later than one hundred twenty (120) days from the effective date of this act, the Administrator shall adopt regulations for the granting, enjoyment, reduction and cancellation of the credits provided in § 1161 of this title, which shall establish the following, among others:

(a) The inmate’s behaviour that constitutes good conduct, whose continued observance or assiduity shall lead to the granting and enjoyment of these credits;

(b) those acts perpetrated by the inmate that constitute bad conduct, classified as to how serious and grave the acts are and the sanction that they entail, which will include admonishing, reduction or partial or total cancellation of the credits;

(c) the inmate’s conduct evaluation system that leads to granting, enjoyment, suspension, reduction and cancellation of the credits;

(d) the sanctions that will be imposed for repeated bad conduct, and

(e) the procedure to be used for the granting, enjoyment, suspension, reduction and cancellation of credits, that guarantees due process of law, and to orient the inmates on the scope of the credit system.

History —July 22, 1974, No. 116, Part 1, p. 501, § 18; July 20, 1989, No. 27, p. 93, § 3.