ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:
I.
We are asked today to construe statutes regarding an incarcerated offender's eligibility for parole. The claim requires particularly that we focus upon the Mississippi Department of Corrections' statutorily authorized "good time" program and a claim of access to its benefits by one under consecutive sentences, one of which by statute is a mandatory sentence.
The Circuit Court denied the offender's claim that...
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