Patrick v. Commissioner of Correction

How courts have described this case

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• “‘punishment, penalty or forfeiture’ is ‘incurred’ … at the time the offence for which punishment is imposed is committed” (quoted source omitted; emphasis added)
• in context of discussion regarding forfeiture of good time intended to penalize a prisoner for commission of an offense during the term of imprisonment
• under prior version of G.L.c. 127, §129, forfeiture of good time credits was incurred at the time of the incident upon which the forfeiture was based, even though the forfeiture was officially approved at a later date

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).