Gov. Jay Inslee announced that he is taking immediate actions after the discovery of a long-standing sentencing issue that resulted in inmates within the state being released from prison early. The Corrections Department and governors office have not released the names of those inmates who have been sent back to prison, or the name of the family who alerted the agency to the problem.
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The sentencing enhancements are where the error occurred, Barclay said. Until then the DoC has been ordered not to release any prisoner without checking manually that they should be released.
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In December 2012, a victim’s family brought up concern about the release of an offender, which was the first time the department became aware of the issue.
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Washington governor, Jay Inslee, released a statement yesterday about the errors.
The governor ordered DOC to halt all releases from prison until a hand calculation is done to ensure the offender is being released on the correct date.
Here’s how the early releases have been happening, according to Inslee and the DOC: Prisoners earn “good time” for serving time in local jails before they’re sent to state prison. Those offenders will be given “day-for-day credit for their time in the community”, the state said.
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. “I have a lot of questions about how this happened”. Nick Brown, Inslee’s general counsel, said he was confident a software fix for sentencing calculations will be implemented next month. Department of Corrections officials said most are not likely to be locked up if they stayed out of trouble.
Some of those released early will be required to return to finish their sentences in prison or on work release. “The department changed its sentence computation coding to comply with the ruling; however the programming fix contained an inaccurate sequencing that over-credited good time for those offenders with sentencing enhancements”.
DOC Secretary Dan Pacholke said he wasn’t told about the glitch until last Tuesday, and Inslee said he was briefed Thursday night.
According to officials, the inmates were released 49 days early on average.
“We will see what we can find out about this and whether any of these individuals have committed crimes and what crimes they committed when they should have been in prison”, Padden said.
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But, added Brown, state does not have a complete list of names of those released early.
