In re Application for Relief from Personal Restraint of Julio Mota

In this personal restraint petition, Julio Mota challenges the Department of Corrections failure to give him good-time credit for the 67 days he spent in the county jail prior to sentencing on first degree kidnapping and first degree robbery counts. We hold that for persons sentenced under the Sentencing Reform Act of 1981 (SRA), the equal protection clause requires that the Department make available good-time credit for presentence incarceration as well as for time served after imposition of sentence. Therefore, we grant Mr. Motas petition and remand the matter to the Department for recalculation of his release date.