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Department of Corrections

By Jonathan Simor

This mornings papers and radio news is covering the "return" of former SLA radical Sara Jane Olson to a California prison just days after her release following six years in prison. According to the Department of Corrections they made a mistake in calculating her sentence back in 2004, and she really needs to serve an additional year, with release now scheduled for March 17, 2009. According to the SFChron coverage by Carolyn Jones and Bob Egelko"The department is sensitive to the effects this has had. The department sincerely regrets the mistake," said Alberto Roldan, chief deputy general counsel for the Department of Corrections.California's massive and catastrophically poorly managed prison bureaucracy (read many of the previous posts on this blog concerning California's prison crisis) is now actually called the "Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation" in testament to Governor Schwarzenegger's original zeal to try to alter the state's policies of warehousing people in prisons...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on March 23, 2008 (boomark / email).