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| SLA member's file reveiwed before release |
| By The Mercury News |
| Published: 03/28/2008 |
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CALIFORNIA - California prison administrators and clerks reviewed the file of Sara Jane Olson multiple times since December, failing to catch the miscalculation that led to the premature release of the former 1970s radical, officials confirmed Thursday. Olson, 61, was paroled March 17, a year before her sentence was to end. She was re-arrested five days later after the error was caught. The corrections department has launched an internal review into what went wrong, but the blame-game escalated on Thursday. The union representing prison clerks released information indicating that correction department supervisors reviewed Olson's case last December and periodically this year. The last review was 10 days before her parole from the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla. At one point, a clerk spent 90 minutes going over the complicated case with a supervisor, who agreed with the clerk's parole calculation, the union said. The Service Employees International Union, which represents 15,000 civilian employees in the state prison system, released the information because it fears some of its members will be blamed for the mixup, union spokesman Jim Zamora said. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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