We are not familiar with the "10% rule". There are several places with over-populated county jails where male inmates often are released after serving as little as 10% of their sentences and female prisoners after 5%. This is not prevalent everywhere, just in extreme over-crowding where they can justify the unusual practice.
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Accepted Answer Date Created: July 01,2016