This is not an exaggeration. This is a direct quote from a local news story about a really bad man who got caught doing really bad things. Someone, please, how we got from 360 to 25?!
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In general, you serve the longest time from the sentence given for one act. So if you kill someone during a robbery using a stolen car, you are sentenced for the murder (say 25 years) and the robbery (10 years) and the car theft (5 years). Total 40 years. But the murder sentence is longer, so that’s the one that gets served. The car theft sentence is still being served, but at the same time as the murder sentence.
Consecutive sentences usually come into play when there’s been, say, serial murders. Not the same act, so the sentences become consecutive instead of concurrent.
Oversimplified, but that’s the gist.
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