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Colorado releases first 10 prisoners to save money
ap ^ | Oct 15, 2009

Posted on 10/15/2009 3:08:44 PM PDT by george76

So far, Colorado has released 10 prisoners early as part of a plan to save $19 million, including a man previously convicted of a child sex-assault case.

Gov. Bill Ritter has said that no sex offenders, kidnappers or sex offenders would be released early.

Fifty-one-year-old Benny Joe Rael was convicted of a child sex-assault case back in 1982 although that's not the crime he had been serving time for.

(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: billritter; corruption; ritter; taxes

1 posted on 10/15/2009 3:08:44 PM PDT by george76
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To: george76
Gov. Bill Ritter has said that no sex offenders, kidnappers or sex offenders would be released early.

Oh. And he's not going to release sex offenders early.

2 posted on 10/15/2009 3:10:37 PM PDT by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Remember Neda Agha-Soltan|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
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To: jan in Colorado

Of the 10 offenders released, seven have been convicted of violent crimes, including three convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence or assault and four convicted of felony violent crimes from robbery to vehicular assault, The Denver Post reported.

They included a man accused three times of sex offenses and a drunken driver convicted of vehicular homicide


3 posted on 10/15/2009 3:11:45 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: sionnsar

We all wonder just how long it will be before they start costing us money and lives again. I guess those don’t count. People like this creep aren’t reformed.


4 posted on 10/15/2009 3:12:42 PM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: Candor7; Morgan in Denver; LucyT

To make room for offenders being paroled early, about 2,600 former inmates currently on parole will no longer be supervised


5 posted on 10/15/2009 3:12:58 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

This CANNOT be legal. Wouldn’t it make more sense to cut after-school programs than let prisoners out?


6 posted on 10/15/2009 3:13:02 PM PDT by Reagan69 (The only thing SHOVEL-READY since BO's stimulus has been MICHAEL JACKSON (tammy bruce))
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To: sionnsar

Isn’t there a slightly used helium balloon they Colorado could use to “release” their prisoners?


7 posted on 10/15/2009 3:14:10 PM PDT by MediaMole
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To: george76

Poor sense of priority.


8 posted on 10/15/2009 3:14:58 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: george76
Gov. Bill Ritter has said that no sex offenders, kidnappers or sex offenders would be released early

Its not early if the state orders it

9 posted on 10/15/2009 3:17:25 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: Brilliant; Psycho_Bunny; Clintonfatigued

The Democrats think that they found the taxpayer money for college tuition for illegals .


10 posted on 10/15/2009 3:18:23 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

Why didn’t they start with non-violent drug offenders?


11 posted on 10/15/2009 3:19:38 PM PDT by Boiling Pots (Barack Obama: The Final Turd George W. Bush laid on America)
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To: george76

Ten candidates for new Obama czar positions.


12 posted on 10/15/2009 3:22:51 PM PDT by MtnClimber (Bernard Madoff's ponzi scheme looks remarkably similar to the way Social Security works)
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To: george76

“including a man previously convicted of a child sex-assault case. “

Not the man caught smoking pot, but the child sex offender. Come-on, the jails are full of people who broke laws that didn’t hurt people, But they let out the worst!

I’m sure they did this for max effect. Kinda like in my home state california. They fire the teachers and point the finger at the taxpayers.


13 posted on 10/15/2009 3:29:03 PM PDT by bassfishing
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To: george76

So Ritter blows it in the very first batch? How stupid is that!


14 posted on 10/15/2009 3:34:08 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("The President has borrowed more money to spend to less effect than anybody on the planet. " Steyn)
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To: george76
Colorado releases first 10 prisoners to save money

Can't wait to see the court payouts after these perps go back into their life of crime and attack innocent citizens.
15 posted on 10/15/2009 3:38:49 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Obama, Hitler, Stalin: Who are 3 people nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.)
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To: george76

Of course, Bill Ritter didn’t cut any welfare spending at all. What better way to get support for tax hikes than by releasing criminals onto the public.


16 posted on 10/15/2009 4:08:12 PM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: sionnsar

Alert Major M. Major, Supervisor of supervision in the Department of Redundancy Department!


17 posted on 10/15/2009 4:08:21 PM PDT by Ronin (Nemo me impune lacesset)
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To: george76

With the death penalty, this would not be an issue!


18 posted on 10/15/2009 4:38:17 PM PDT by ROTB ("By any means necessary"=PureEvil "The urge to save humanity is [often a ruse] for the urge to rule")
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To: sionnsar; All
Gov. Bill Ritter has said that no sex offenders, kidnappers or sex offenders would be released early.

I'm pretty sure the guy mentioned in the article is guilty of at least two of those.

19 posted on 10/15/2009 4:59:52 PM PDT by KarinG1 (Please excuse any grammatical errors, as I was slobbering mad when I posted this.)
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