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| Offenders building new lives after early release are yanked back into custody due to state’s error |
| By seattletimes.com- Lewis Kamb |
| Published: 01/08/2016 |
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The phone call came midway through her shift as a waitress at a roadside casino. Three armed officers had shown up at her mother’s Issaquah home, looking for Rachel Patterson. Now, a state corrections officer was telling her to surrender. “He explained we miscalculated your time and basically told me if I don’t turn myself in immediately, I would be in more trouble,” Patterson said. For three months, Patterson, 29, had been free; a three-year prison sentence for felony assault was behind her. And she’d been doing well, she said: She landed a job, passed all drug tests, hadn’t committed any new crimes. Then came the call, and within a few hours, Patterson was wearing a red jail uniform and under a “no-bail hold.” A few days later, she was telling her story to a reporter through thick security glass at the King County Jail. Read More. |
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