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More than 3,000 Washington prisoners mistakenly freed early (computer glitch)
AP via MSN ^ | 12/23/15 | RACHEL LA CORTE

Posted on 12/23/2015 2:53:26 PM PST by Libloather

OLYMPIA, Wash. - More than 3,000 prisoners in Washington have been mistakenly released early since 2002 because of an error by the state's Department of Corrections that resulted in wrongly calculated sentences for about 3 percent of the prison population.

At a news conference announcing the error Tuesday, Gov. Jay Inslee said he has ordered immediate steps to correct the longstanding computer glitch.

"Frankly, it is maddening," Inslee said.

Authorities say a July 2002 state Supreme Court ruling required the Corrections Department to apply good-behavior credits earned in county jail to state prison sentences. However, the programming fix ended up giving prisoners with sentencing enhancements too much so-called good time credit.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: computer; glitch; prisoners; washington
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The good news - they all qualify to get free stuff from Husseincare.

Clinton claims rising health care costs and deductibles of Obamacare are just 'glitches'

1 posted on 12/23/2015 2:53:26 PM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Somebody must have been using an early version of Common Core arithmetic. According to their calculations, all was Kosher!
So to speak.


2 posted on 12/23/2015 2:56:10 PM PST by lee martell
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To: lee martell

Lucky them I guess


3 posted on 12/23/2015 2:57:02 PM PST by riverrunner
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To: Libloather

Well, good programming can only be found at the ObamaCare website.......


4 posted on 12/23/2015 3:04:44 PM PST by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: Libloather

It would be interesting to see who signed off on the technical design spec.

In my experience, many signers don’t actually read the document.


5 posted on 12/23/2015 3:05:04 PM PST by proxy_user
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To: Libloather

Yeah, “mistakenly”, riiiight.


6 posted on 12/23/2015 3:06:21 PM PST by uncitizen (Pray for Donald Trump)
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"Frankly, it is maddening," Inslee said.

Frankly, you're maddening you fool.

7 posted on 12/23/2015 3:07:45 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Libloather

Computer glitch my ass. It isn’t like the computer just opened to doors all by itself.

I HATE BUREAUCRATS!


8 posted on 12/23/2015 3:11:23 PM PST by Fledermaus (To hell with the Republican Party. I'm done with them. If I want a Lib Dem I'd vote for one.)
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To: Libloather

Glitch. Sure. I get so sick of the “oh, we in government are so incompetent, silly us”, excuse. If this is true, then let’s see some heads roll. Good luck.


9 posted on 12/23/2015 3:15:35 PM PST by fhayek
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Based on a prior Supreme Court ruling, most of the affected offenders won't have to go back to prison. But officials have identified at least seven prisoners who were freed but haven't reached their corrected release date yet, and they will need to return to prison. Five of them have already been re-incarcerated.

The Department of Corrections was first alerted to the error in December 2012, when a victim's family learned of a prisoner's imminent release. The family did its own calculations and found he was being credited with too much time.

A victim's family brought all this to light.

10 posted on 12/23/2015 3:20:39 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: Libloather

http://media2.giphy.com/media/Fml0fgAxVx1eM/giphy.gif


11 posted on 12/23/2015 3:21:07 PM PST by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11 HillaryForPrison2016)
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To: uncitizen

That’s what I was thinking. Just more nonsense to throw out there to keep conservatives (no longer can say GOP) from concentrating efforts on the DEMs.


12 posted on 12/23/2015 3:21:49 PM PST by CatOwner (Trump + Cruz greater than 50% = GOPe on suicide watch)
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To: Libloather

Liberals were feeling Christmassy ?


13 posted on 12/23/2015 3:27:08 PM PST by TYVets
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To: Libloather

Idiocracy,the movie, is now a documentary. In the movie the guards were too stupid to keep people in so the lead character simply walked out.


14 posted on 12/23/2015 3:29:44 PM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Libloather

An error in programming, not a computer “”glitch”.


15 posted on 12/23/2015 3:43:02 PM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Libloather

Maybe the Washington governor should request the Department of Corrections to collect up to 3,000 gonads from the employees and consultants responsible for the FUBAR.

Yeah, I know. The governor probably doesn’t even have a pair to make that request.


16 posted on 12/23/2015 3:44:04 PM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: Libloather

This is why we need the death penalty extended to apply to all violent felons: this way, the liberals can’t let them back into society and then pretend it was a “mistake”.


17 posted on 12/23/2015 3:51:56 PM PST by Objective Scrutator (All liberals are criminals, and all criminals are liberals)
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To: uncitizen

Exactly...just happens to corespond with Louis Farrahkhan (and Jeremiah Wright) calling for a 10,000 man Islamic Army ( to kill whites) and Obama responding to this request by asking for the release of 6000 blacks from prison. Looks like they have only 1000 to go!


18 posted on 12/23/2015 4:04:35 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Libloather

How many will be so grateful that they will not reoffend?


19 posted on 12/23/2015 4:07:36 PM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: JimRed

At least one or two. Maybe...


20 posted on 12/23/2015 4:08:57 PM PST by I Hired Craig Livingstone (Is Hillary schlonged? Only Huma knows for sure.)
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