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New inmate disciplinary oversight board says its reviews sharply increased removals of sentence credits and requests staff to scale work
Summary
The newly created inmate disciplinary oversight board told the committee it reviewed 11,000-plus class A incidents in 2024, contributed to a rise in removed sentence-credit days compared with pre-board totals and requested additional staff (deputy director and part-time IT manager) to handle workload and data issues.
The newly established Inmate Disciplinary Oversight Board told the Finance, Ways and Means Committee that it has reviewed tens of thousands of disciplinary incidents since it began operations and that the board's work materially increased the number of sentence-credit days removed for infractions.
A presenter identified in the hearing as director Stahl (presenting the board's request) said the board reviews "the grant denial and removal of inmate sentence credits for every inmate at each of the state's 14 correctional facilities," covering approximately 23,000 inmates. The presenter said the board recorded a substantial increase in disciplinary credit removals after it began work: TDOC chief of staff had told the committee that in 2022 about 2,253…
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