Washington state releasing convicts early by mistake since 2002
Government marches on: Because of a software error, Washington state has for more than 12 years released more than 3,000 convicted felons several months earlier than required by law
Two of those felons have now been charged with murders that occurred during the period when they should have been in prison.
Sounds stupid and bad eh? Well, it gets worse:
Even though the problem was discovered in 2012, the department repeatedly delayed fixing the software, until Gov. Jay Inslee says the problem finally came to his attention last month. He disclosed the problem to the media in a press conference shortly before Christmas. “That this problem was allowed to continue to exist for 13 years is deeply disappointing, it is totally unacceptable, and frankly, it is maddening,” Inslee says.
Hey, why should anyone be complaining? It takes time to fix software problems. And the work is hard! In fact, we should be grateful these government employees are now working to fix it.
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Government marches on: Because of a software error, Washington state has for more than 12 years released more than 3,000 convicted felons several months earlier than required by law
Two of those felons have now been charged with murders that occurred during the period when they should have been in prison.
Sounds stupid and bad eh? Well, it gets worse:
Even though the problem was discovered in 2012, the department repeatedly delayed fixing the software, until Gov. Jay Inslee says the problem finally came to his attention last month. He disclosed the problem to the media in a press conference shortly before Christmas. “That this problem was allowed to continue to exist for 13 years is deeply disappointing, it is totally unacceptable, and frankly, it is maddening,” Inslee says.
Hey, why should anyone be complaining? It takes time to fix software problems. And the work is hard! In fact, we should be grateful these government employees are now working to fix it.
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Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. Your support allows me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Only now does it appear that Washington might finally recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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These stories always make me see red.
Why? Because I know for a certainty that NO ONE will even lose their job, let alone be charged with a crime and go to jail for their actions (or in this case, willful lack of action..)
At most, AT MOST, one or two government hacks will be asked to resign, there will be a big news story about how they are being fired, yet they will end up in another government job a few months later and of course keep their pensions and nice vacation home on the ocean.
This is why Trump is doing so well. People are pissed off at a broken system and don’t trust ANY politician from EITHER side to do the right thing.
I will start to believe that there may be hope when people start going to jail again.