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| State removes murderers from work release centers |
| By .tampabay.com - Kameel Stanley and Curtis Krueger, |
| Published: 03/02/2013 |
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FLORIDA - The Department of Corrections moved convicted murderers out of all of the state's work release centers on Friday and said it will no longer allow them to participate in the program. The move comes less than a week after the Tampa Bay Times published an investigation about the hundreds of violent felons housed at the facilities. For years, officials running the minimum security work release centers described the program as a transitional stop for low-level, nonviolent offenders near the end of their sentences. But the Times found that as of Jan. 31, more than 17 percent of the nearly 4,000 inmates in work release centers committed violent crimes — including 20 murderers. "All inmates with a current or prior conviction of murder or homicide have been removed from Work Release," DOC Secretary Michael Crews said Friday in a statement. "Inmates with these convictions will be ineligible for participation in Work Release moving forward." Read More. |
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