Do weekends count as time served in jail?

Question

my husband has had court twice and still waiting to be extradited. It has been 2 months in jail and he had his hearing for probable cause and court on the initial misdemeanor he was first arrested for. the last court date was last week on a thursday. Georgia has not responded on a date set to pick him up, so does that mean he will be out in 10 days if they don't pick him up with him being under a parole warrant? Please help!

Answer 1

In general, if you're held strictly on account of the charge in question, your time counts one-for-one against any sentence. If you have something else holding you, like another charge or laying out a fine or a parole warrant, it's judge's discretion.

It sounds like you're saying he has a new misdemeanor and a parole warrant, maybe from another state. If that's right, he'll probably sit there until he is actually tried or pleads and is sentenced on the misdemeanor, at which time he will have probably served out the misdemeanor sentence, and they come for him on the parole warrant detainer then. If he's already sentenced on the misdemeanor, they'll give Georgia an opportunity to come get him, and wherever you are, it's likely they would hold him no more than ten days just on an out-of-state parole warrant. Of course, the warrant won't just go away, and he's liable to be arrested again the next time he runs into the police. The jail supervisor should have no problem explaining it for you.

Answer 2

Your question is a little confusing. Yes, weekends do count as time served in jail. If he has 10 days left to do and they haven't extradited him then he will be able to get out. But the warrant in the other state will still be in affect and he would need to turn himself in.

Answer 3

Any amount of time that he spends locked up in the Jail will count towards his time that he must do if any.    

Your question is some what confusing, but I think I see what your attempting to say here.

If you are asking because Georgia hasn't responded by picking him up from the facility where he is at, that he will be out in ten days that may not be the case.  It may just mean that Georgia is waiting for bed space to open up where he is suppose to be going to.  If they don't have the bed space then they can not extradite him to Georgia until they do have the space.  Once they have bed space they will move him to where he is suppose to be going.  They have not forgotten about him or even failed to respond, since they have already responded to the jail where he is at now.  They know what is going on, but as I have said they will not share that information with him or you.

He will find out he is leaving at the last moment.  You will find out he has been moved after he gets to where he is going and he has either has called you or written you.  You will not be told until then that it has even happened as that is how it has to be.

You do not say how much time in total that he is suppose to be looking at getting.  Georgia is not going and can not tell him when he is going to be extradited, they will just do it when they are ready.  They will not allow him to know when it is going to happen, since they have to keep that under wraps so to speak.  They will not breach their security by telling him when he is going to go, since they will not put any one in possible harms way by doing so.

It is done this way to prevent possible escape attempts, so that they can keep both the prisoners as well as the staff safe.  

I hope that this helps answer your question.  I wish you all the best.  God Bless.

Answer 4

yes weekends count.  If GA doesn't come in the allowed time (they will), then he will be released and then re-arrested on the same warrant and it will start all over again.

Answer 5

I do believe weekends count for jail time

Answer 6

This depends on where he is housed at?

Extradited for what? warrants, FTA?

You say Georgia has not responded?

So if he is housed in a nearby state, (Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee) then they have x number of days to pick him up, from last date of court in your state?

I have held an inmate on an out of state warrant for 30 days before release?

And have seen them come to pick up on 29th day.