By C1 Staff
MURFREESBORO — A Rutherford County woman who is refusing to return to a correctional work center has brought attention to discrepancies in the way sentences are calculated at a local level.
Sharonda Renee Taylor believes employees charged with calculating sentences at the Rutherford Correctional Work Center are doing it wrong, according to the Tennessean.
Administrators at the Rutherford County Adult Detention Center versus the work center do perform sentence computations differently, according to their own interpretations of Tennessee’s sentencing and sentence credit laws.
Some discrepancies arise from varying advice sought from the state attorney general’s office over the years, as well as when inmates spend more time in one facility versus the other.
Taylor maintains that under the state work credit law, inmates should get 15 days off their sentences each month from the work credit, before any other program credits. But inmates are actually being given 13-day credit for every 30 days served.
Rutherford County Correctional Work Center superintendent Bernard Salandy said he read the state work credit law as applying only to state inmates, which the work center does not have.