The movie was allegedly based on a true instance in Arkansas I do believe.
Shouldn't a LIBERAL state be ASHAMED?
"The department of incorrection; Prisoner kept beyond term, despite state's vow to change" by David Abel, Globe Staff | January 29, 2009
Mark Taylor knew something was wrong.
In the fall of 2006, halfway into a five-year sentence at the Massachusetts Treatment Center, the inmate asked prison officials why he was not accruing time off his term for good behavior. An official in the records division responded in writing, erroneously telling Taylor that he was not eligible because he was a habitual offender.
One afternoon last month prison officials realized the mistake and abruptly told Taylor he was leaving, more than seven months after he should have been released, even though he had nowhere to go. An officer then took Taylor, who has a history of drug problems, to a homeless shelter in Worcester, where he said he spent a long night watching other men smoke crack and shoot heroin.
But we have trillions for wars, banks, etc....
"I couldn't believe what was happening," said Taylor, now 47, who had been imprisoned for assaulting a friend while they were high on cocaine. "They gave me no warning and no choice. When I asked to make a call, they said it would have to be collect. They just gave me a few trash bags to gather my stuff, but I couldn't take everything. Then I was rushed out."
So they KEEP the guy in the pen too long, then JUST DUMP HIM!??
Look, I'm not for coddling druggies, but IF HE DID HIS TIME and SERVED HIS SENTENCE, WTF?
The error occurred more than 18 months after the Globe reported that the state Department of Correction confined at least 14 inmates beyond their release dates. Department officials subsequently vowed to make sweeping changes to their system for calculating sentences.
Last summer, the department paid a $100,000 settlement to Rommel Jones, a mentally ill inmate who spent more than four years in prison after he should have been released.
Now Taylor is threatening to sue the state for depriving him of his freedom by failing to take into account 217 days he earned for participating in rehabilitation programs, a miscalculation that raises serious questions about the effectiveness of the department's new system.
Correction officials insist their new system worked as designed. They have yet to issue an apology to Taylor, a schizophrenic who is temporarily staying with a cousin while he awaits a bed at a Department of Mental Health facility....
Oh, I wouldn't expect one: tyrannies never apologize.
That's why LIBERAL MORALIZING and LECTURING is the ABSOLUTE PIT of HYPOCRISY!
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