Sacramento, CA: Computer errors let violent California prisoners go free..A computer system that lacked key information about inmates factored in the release of an estimated 450 prisoners with a "high risk of violence," as unsupervised parolees in a program meant to ease overcrowding, The revelations come two days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that CA's prisons are dangerously overcrowded and upheld an earlier order that state officials must find a way to reduce the 143,335-inmate population by roughly 33,000. More than 1,000 additional prisoners presenting a high risk of committing drug crimes, property crimes and other offenses were also let out. No attempt was made to return any of the offenders to state lockups or place them on supervised parole
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-prisons-20110526,0,6293602.story
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