Posted on 02/12/2012 3:57:44 PM PST by matt04
Ricky Haggood firebombed Richard and Deborah Dozier's house on Carmel Street in New Haven in 1990, while the couple was upstairs in their bedroom, sleeping. They managed to race out the back.
Haggood thought the Doziers, who were active in the local block watch, had tipped police off to drug dealing on the street. Haggood received a 20-year sentence in 1991 for arson.
But by 2003, several years short of his maximum release date, Haggood was on the lam. He didn't go over the wall — they almost never do.
He was released, by the state parole board, to parole authorities in New York in April 2002. Soon, he stopped reporting to his case officer, though, and went underground. In October 2003, while still the responsibility of Connecticut prison officials, committed a gang-related murder. He would not be recaptured until the late summer of 2004.
The seriousness of Haggood's crime is unusual for a Connecticut parolee, but his time on the lam isn't.
A Courant review found that since 1970, 15,255 inmates have walked away from halfway houses or bolted from their parole officers, and have been listed as "escaped" or "absconded" for some period of time. It could be hours. It could be years. A small number of them were let go from prison accidentally or never returned from a work furlough.
The median time on the lam: 70 days
A third of those escapes have occurred since 2000, with hundreds of new cases every year.
(Excerpt) Read more at courant.com ...
Or they run for office in the DNC where they remain protected.
More innocents will be killed by murderers who are not executed (in prison, or once released or if they escape) than will be killed by the state in erroneous executions.
What is a a Courant review?
What is a a Courant review?
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The name of the publication is the “Hartford Courant”.
And the recidivism rate for those released is about 65% within three years.
It’s like “A Courant Affair” but in print form! LOL!
Guess I should have read the story.
Too big a hurry.
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