Under NY Penal Law § 70.30(1)(b), when a defendant receives consecutive determinate sentences, the terms are added to arrive at an aggregate maximum term. However, § 70.30(1)(e) imposes mandatory statutory aggregate caps: where the convictions involve multiple violent felonies including at least one Class B felony, the aggregate maximum determinate term is statutorily capped at 30 years, regardless of how many consecutive years the trial court imposed.

For determinate violent felony sentences in New York (Correction Law § 803), an incarcerated individual can earn a maximum good behavior allowance of one-seventh (1/7th, or ~14.3%) of the imposed term. This means the inmate must serve at least six-sevenths (85.7%) of the determinate sentence before reaching conditional release eligibility. In California, violent felonies under Penal Code § 2933.1 strictly cap worktime/conduct credits at 15% (requiring 85% actual custody).

Under NY CPL § 480.10 and Penal Law § 70.30(5), time served under a vacated or reversed conviction is credited against any subsequent sentence imposed for the same offense or related indictments upon remand. If resentenced to 15 years after serving 6 years, those 6 years directly reduce the remaining time needed to satisfy the 85.7% conditional release threshold.

Sentences imposed in distinct state jurisdictions are presumptively consecutive unless the sentencing court in the second jurisdiction explicitly orders the sentence to run concurrently with the first state's custody and designates the first state's correctional facility as the place of confinement under the Interstate Agreement on Detainers (CPL § 580.20).