[malia]

Was Kerry involved in the special release program for prisoners?

[fight_truth_decay]

With the money from his first rich wife he financed his campaign for the Lieutenant Governorship of Massachusetts, and as such he supported Governor Dukakis' prison work release program which put Willie Horton back on the streets to recidivate. This wasn't a good program, as Al Gore pointed out in his unsuccessful bid for the presidential nomination in 1988.

[MistyCA]

That's what I thought but I really am sketchy on the details.

[fight_truth_decay]

This is also a difficult subject to research as actual involvement by Kerry on Horton is mostly in the bloggesphere..I did find only one blogger who seemed to have done some research and he/she said:

"as U. S. Senator, he DID defend Dukakis when Dukakis came under fire for it. But his endorsement of his boss's program of what came to be known as "weekend passes for murderers" was, to my best knowledge, more nominal and peripheral than central and decisive.

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