Oversight board says it reviewed 15,000 class‑A incidents and removed 400,000 inmate credit days in 2025
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The Inmate Disciplinary Oversight Board told the committee it reviewed more than 15,000 class-A incidents in 2025, removed over 400,000 credit days above TDOC recommendations, restored 34,000 days to inmates, and is seeking a 6.5% budget increase to improve staffing, technology and transparency of disciplinary reviews.
Michael Stahl, executive director of the Inmate Disciplinary Oversight Board, told the House committee that the nine-member board reviews disciplinary determinations made by the Tennessee Department of Correction and determines whether sentence credits should be reduced, increased, or left unchanged.
Stahl said the board reviewed more than 15,000 class‑A incidents in 2025 and removed more than 400,000 credit days beyond Department of Corrections recommendations while restoring more than 34,000 credit days. The board reported it had requested additional criminal-review follow-ups with local district attorneys for several incidents and provided legislative memoranda on sentencing-credit impacts.
Committee members asked about the board’s relationship with TDOC, access to the Tennessee offender-management system (eTOMIS), and the board’s evidence-gathering process. Stahl said the board is independent and relies primarily on eTOMIS for raw data but has only read‑only access to selected screens; eTOMIS cannot carry all supporting documents (for example, some medical and drug-test records), so the board requests follow-up documents from TDOC. Stahl said the board is developing a memorandum of understanding with TDOC and is considering building an independent platform to permit two-way data sharing to improve transparency, auditability and public-records responsiveness.
Stahl also described site visits (12 of 14 facilities visited in recent work), monthly leadership meetings with TDOC to convey policy concerns, and outreach to victim coordinators and the public (including a website form and public meetings) to capture victim input. The board is requesting a 6.5% budget increase to address staffing and operational needs tied to rising workload and to fund technology improvements.
Members encouraged continued data-sharing improvements, and the board said it would seek better access to documentation while respecting privacy and legal limits on health and medical records.