Ky. Dep't of Corr. v. Dixon

OPINION OF THE COURT BY JUSTICE HUGHES

*47Kentucky Revised Statute (KRS) 197.047 allows work-time sentence credit to inmates, but the credit is not available to a prisoner who is serving a sentence for a violent offense. Although the trial court upheld the Kentucky Department of Corrections' (Department) denial of work-credit to Mark Dixon, an inmate serving a sentence for both violent and nonviolent offenses, the Court of Appeals reversed that decision. The Court of Appeals concluded that Dixon's aggregate sentence for three separate crimes can be separated into discrete parts, and after…