OPINION
GOMES, J.
The Department of Corrections (Department) appeals the lower court's granting a writ of habeas corpus to inmate, Breonne Tate. During Tate's incarceration on a four-year six-month prison term for a violent felony, Tate was convicted of a nonviolent in-prison offense and sentenced to a fully consecutive two-year term. Because the four-year six-month term was for a violent felony, the Department applied Penal Code section 2933.1's
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