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| Early inmate releases: bureaucratic officiousness in the state DOC, AG’s office |
| By seattletimes.com |
| Published: 01/04/2016 |
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RECORDS released last week in the unfolding “good time” scandal at the state Department of Corrections underscore an appalling apathy about good government in Olympia. When the DOC first learned in 2012 that it had been miscalculating release dates for inmates for the past decade, the agency’s staff asked the Attorney General’s Office about fixing the error in a database. Instead of giving a maximum of one-third off an offender’s sentence for following prison rules — known as “good time” — the agency was giving up to 58 percent off. And continued doing so for three more years. This scandal falls squarely on Gov. Jay Inslee’s administration. Already, prosecutors have charged released inmates in the deaths of at least two innocent civilians: A 32-year-old Bellevue woman, Lindsay Hill, was killed in a vehicle driven by an ex-inmate released too early; and a 17-year-old was killed during a robbery in Spokane in May. Read More. |
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