The Washington state Department of Corrections (DOC) has been incorrectly calculating prisoner sentences since 2002, according to a statement released by Governor Jay Inslee yesterday. He ordered the DOC to pause all releases “until a hand calculation is done to ensure the offender is being released on the correct date”.
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The state Department of Corrections expects to have a software fix in place by January 7 to correct the error that led to the early releases, Inslee’s office said.
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Meanwhile, Inslee says the state has hired two retired federal prosecutors to discover out how the problem persisted for so long.
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Inslee’s press release says that DOC first learned there was a problem in 2012 and began the process of a fix, but was repeatedly delayed.
It was introduced in 2002 as part of an update that followed a court ruling about applying good behaviour credits. However, the programming fix contained an inaccurate sequencing that over-credited good time for those offenders with sentencing enhancements.
Officials said they do not yet know if any of the inmates released early went on to commit other crimes during the time they should have been in prison. Others will be given credit for time in the community. Five of them have already been re-incarcerated.
The computer coding error dates to 2002 after the Washington Supreme Court ruled that the state had to credit inmates for “good time” earned while in county jail.
‘These were serious errors with serious implications.
According to information released by the governor’s office, the Department of Corrections was alerted by a victim’s family to the computation problem in December 2012.
It estimated that prisoners on average saw a 49 day reduction in their prison sentences, because of the bug.
“I want to acknowledge the anger this brings to so many people”, said Department of Corrections Secretary Dan Pacholke. The number of inmates freed could go as high as 3,200.
The Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) is moving to fix a computational error that led to the release of hundreds of inmates ahead of schedule, officials said Tuesday, Dec. 22.
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Pacholke said DOC officials are working backward through release records to figure out who was let out, who has committed new crimes since being let out, and who needs to return to prison.
