High-risk Calif parolees unsupervised

[Reptyle]

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California improperly paroled more than 450 dangerous criminals without supervision last year as part of a program designed to reduce prison crowding and cost, the California prison system's independent inspector general said Wednesday in a report.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_california_prisons

[TxAprilMagic]

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/may...lease-20110524

Overcrowding

Supreme Court upholds order for California to release 46,000 inmates

Inmates sit for dinner at the California State Prison in Lancaster. A federal… (Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times)May 23, 2011|By James Oliphant | Washington BureauThe Supreme Court, in a narrow 5-4 decision, has an upheld an injunction by a three-judge panel ordering California to release about 46,000 inmates -- more than one-fourth the state prison population -- over the next two years to relieve overcrowding.

The decision was written by Justice Anthony Kennedy and backed by the court's liberal bloc. At issue was whether federal judges had the power to order the release of state prisoners as a necessary means of curing a constitutional violation.

[MichaelK!]

You know, I first heard about this new computerized system on the radio when it was first proposed and the very first thought that popped into my head was that violent felons would be released by "mistake" simply because of computer errors. Fast-forward to today and that's exactly what has happened for real. Just how accountable do you think the people that created this system are going to be?

By the way, the 450 number is actually an extrapolated estimate, so maybe the real number is either higher or low. It's an estimate of really counting about 10% of the total # of parolees. Since they found 45 felons released by mistake in the first 10% they're assuming there must be about 450 mistakes total. Time will tell how close they are.