If any inmate, convicted under the laws of this state, has demonstrated continued exceptional good behavior, or is in failing health, or for some other good and sufficient reason in the interest of justice, the Governor, upon the recommendation of the secretary of corrections, may diminish the inmate's period of confinement.
S.D. Codified Laws § 24-2-15
Diminution of period of confinement for good behavior, failing health, or other reason in the interest of justice
Source: SDC 1939, § 13.4719; SL 1981, ch 193, § 9; SL 1989, ch 20, § 94; SL 2004, ch 168, § 8.
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