The Massachussetts Department Of Corrections have admitted that they "erred" in the Daniel Tavares case. Remeber, I wrote earlier this month about Tavares. He was a violent man, convictwed of killing his Mother. He was sentenced to jail and was released in July, 2007. One Hundred and twenty-three days later, in Washington State he killed the newlywed couple who lived next door, Beverly and Brian Mauck.
It seems that then Governor Mitt Romney's administration failed to file the paperwork that would have taken away any good-time Tavares had earned. The Dept. of Corrections failed to act on a disciplinary reccomondation to strip him of 300 days of "good time" for threatening a prison guard. The Superintendent who was supposed to file that paper work no longer works for The Department Of Corrections.
Yesterday, the Commisioner of the Massachussetts Department Of Corrections, Harold W. Clarke admitted that releasing Tavares had been a mistake. Clarke didn't take his job as Commisioner until November 26, 2007. So, he is left to clean up the mess that is the Department of Corrections.
The Department is looking into 750 inmates to see if they should have their sentences extended because of discilplinary problems. Isn't that being a day late and more than a dollar short?
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I worry because a long, long time ago in the days of her really stupid youth my cousin went through this bad boy stage. She ended up being married to a loser who killed and raped an elderly woman. She had to go through a big hassle to get a divorce...it looks like you should automatically be granted a divorce if your spouse goes to prison. Anyway, she is supposed to be notified of parole hearings. He's been in for 20 years, so I'm thinking something should be coming up but nothing.
This happened in Michigan too... .and the guy killed five people to include a pregnant woman and her husband ..
Makes me sick ..
See my novel "Invisible Hand" here on Gather for an example of how it could or visit:
http://www.unc.edu/~mason/hand.html
for the same novel without the Gather ads.
Prisons are over crowded, so the parole board has to let people out.
The wrong people get sent to death row because jury's really aren't that smart and all the evidence isn't always presented because of legal technicalities.
Citizens don't want a prison anywhere around their homes and they don't want to pay higher taxes to pay for them , it'll bring down home values and what if someone breaks out and ohhhhhh we don't want to see a prison when we look out our windows. So again there is over crowded prisons that have to let people out to conform to human rights and state/federal laws.
Being a guard in a prison is a very dangerous job because they have to deal not only with violent offenders but they have to do so in a humane way. I'm sure some prison workers get fed up and walk off the job, not caring that they left paperwork undone or misfiled.
It's a vicious circle, one that isn't going to be str8ened out anytime soon. Be aware of your neighbors and surroundings and never take your own softy for grant it.
hopefully they will never allow this to happen again
Either our laws need ratifying or we are sending too many to jail. We coddle them in jail. They are allowed TV, electric blankets, etc.