DARDEN, J.
. . . House entered into a written agreement for entry into the Drug Court, whereby he agreed to “waive[] any right to credit time on the referring sentence for any period of sanction, of whatever variety, imposed under the drug court cause number.” . . . .
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House asserts that the trial court erred in refusing to award him credit time pursuant to Indiana Code section 35-50-6-3(a), which provides that “[a] person assigned to Class I earns one (1) day of credit time for each day he is imprisoned for a crime or confined awaiting trial or sentencing.” Comparing the Drug Court agreement to a plea agreement, he argues that “there was no evidence presented that [he] had any understanding of the waiver provision” when he signed it. . . . The State counters that acceptance of the Drug Court agreement was sufficient to indicate that House knowingly and voluntarily agreed to the waiver of credit time. We agree.
In Creech v. State, 887 N.E.2d 73 (Ind. 2008), our Supreme Court determined that “express findings regarding a defendant’s intention to waive his appellate rights” under a plea agreement were not required to show that a defendant knowingly and voluntarily agreed to the waiver. 887 N.E.2d at 77. Rather, “[a]cceptance of the plea agreement containing the waiver provision is sufficient to indicate that, in the trial court’s view, the defendant knowingly and voluntarily agreed to the waiver.” Id. We find a drug court agreement analogous to a plea agreement. Like a defendant pleading guilty pursuant to a plea agreement, a defendant entering into a drug court program receives considerable benefits, in return for which he “‘he give[s] up a plethora of substantive claims and procedural rights.'” Id. at 74 (quoting Games v. State, 743 N.E.2d 1132, 1135 (Ind. 2001)). Thus, a defendant may waive the right to credit time as part of a written drug court agreement.
In this case, House entered into the written Drug Court agreement on October 3, 2007. By accepting the agreement, he knowingly and voluntarily agreed to waive credit time.2 We therefore find that House is not entitled to credit time for sanctions imposed after he entered into the Drug Court agreement. [Footnote omitted.]
The State argues that House is not entitled to any credit-whether the time spent in jail was before or after entering into the Drug Court agreement-as his “confinement was not the result of the criminal charge for which sentences were being imposed, as contemplated by the plain language of I.C. § 35-50-6-3(a) and I.C. § 35-50-6-4(a).” State’s Br. at 11. The State also likens time spent in custody for violating the Drug Court’s requirements to sentences imposed for criminal contempt, which do not earn credit time under Indiana Code section 35-50-6-4(a). See Jones v. State, 847 N.E.2d 190, 201 (Ind. Ct. App. 2006) (finding that sentences imposed for criminal contempt are “to vindicate the authority of the trial court and not to punish for the commission of a criminal act” and therefore do not fall within the purviews of Indiana Code section 35-50-6-4(a)), trans. denied. We disagree.
Again, Indiana Code section 35-50-6-3(a) provides that “[a] person assigned to Class I earns one (1) day of credit time for each day he is imprisoned for a crime or confined awaiting trial or sentencing.” “Pre-sentence imprisonment is a form of punishment and ‘credit time statutes, as remedial legislation, should be liberally construed in favor of those benefited by the statute.'” Williams v. State, 759 N.E.2d 661, 664 (Ind. Ct. App. 2001) (citing Weaver v. State, 725 N.E.2d 945, 947-48 (Ind. Ct. App. 2000)).
Given the requirements of drug court and the punishment imposed for violating those requirements, we find participating in a drug court analogous to being on probation for purposes of receiving credit time under Indiana Code section 35-50-6-3. See Abernathy v. State, 852 N.E.2d 1016, 1020 (Ind. Ct. App. 2006) (“Probation is a criminal sanction wherein a convicted defendant specifically agrees to accept conditions upon his behavior in lieu of imprisonment.”). Defendants serving time in jail while awaiting sentencing on probation revocations are entitled to credit time. See Senn v. State, 766 N.E.2d 1190, 1194 (Ind. Ct. App. 2002) (determining credit time to which defendant was entitled for time he was incarcerated on a probation violation). We therefore find that defendants imprisoned for violating the terms of a drug court also are entitled to credit time, particularly given that one of the consequences of violating a drug court’s requirements is the imposition of a suspended sentence.
In conclusion, a defendant imprisoned due to violating the terms and conditions of a drug court is entitled to credit time. The defendant, however, may waive credit time for any period of sanction imposed by the drug court by entering into a drug court agreement.
RILEY, J. and VAIDIK, J., concur.