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DOC Gives Tight Parole For Sex Offender
By cbsnews.com
Published: 11/19/2010

MARIN COUNTY, Calif. (CBS/KPIX) California parole officials have reversed their decision to release a Marin County man convicted of neglecting and abusing his 12 children from prison without supervision.

Winnfred Wright , who was sentenced in March 2003 to 16 years and eight months after pleading guilty to six felony counts of child abuse, has served the minimum amount of time required for his sentence and is scheduled to be released from prison Monday, reports The San Francisco Chronicle.

However, Marin County District Attorney Ed Berberian and state parole officials have been battling it out trying to decide whether the man who spearheaded a cult-like organization within his own family should be supervised or unsupervised upon his release.

In an effort to cut costs for struggling public agencies, state officials had planned to release Wright into a program for non-violent offenders where he would be unsupervised, says The San Francisco Chronicle.

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