Who is Jim Doyle releasing from state prisons? Jessica McBride (yes, that Jessica McBride) commits a flagrant act of journalism for WPRI.
The inmates are no strangers to the criminal justice system. Together, the twenty-two inmates have been convicted of a total of more than 150 crimes over the years – at least 74 felonies and 79 misdemeanors. Take Derrick Parnell, 39, of Milwaukee. He is a twelve-time convicted felon. Sentenced most recently for burglary, his sentence was modified in 2005 after he completed a special Corrections program, but his supervision was revoked, and he was re-confined. In 2009, he asked to get out again, but a judge ruled that his early release was not in the public interest. Corrections agreed that he should not be released but reversed itself in November 2009, according to court records....
Coming later: More details on what the newly released felons did to get sent to prison – and reaction from people in the system. And: Although the first inmates released were not convicted of violent offenses in all but one case, some of the state’s most violent and notorious criminals now have a chance to get out early. And the sentencing modifications allow inmates to get time off their sentences for many violent crimes. Plus, who are the eight hundred other inmates that Corrections says it has identified for release?
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