Fisher v. Saylor

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that “a prisoner cannot be compelled to serve a sentence in installments and has a right to serve his sentence continuously”
• convict inadvertently released from prison because of clerical error awarded credit for time spent at large in community, under supervision of probation authorities
• convict inadvertently released from prison because of clerical error awarded credit for time spent at large in community, under supervision of probation authorities
• convict inadvertently released from prison because of clerical error awarded credit for time spent at large in community, under supervision of probation authorities
• convict released on clerical error given credit towards minimum sentence for time spend while released
• inasmuch as erroneous release was attributable to prison authorities rather than to any wrongdoing by the prisoner, the prisoner was entitled to credit for the time in question

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).