Thursday, April 30, 2009
Judge Stops Controversial Prison Release Program
Since May, the state Department of Corrections has released more than 3,000 people from prison or parole under a controversial parole credit program. Circuit Judge David A. Tapp, who had earlier barred releasing prisoners from his area in southern Kentucky, extended the ban statewide in a ruling made public Thursday (today) and ordered the Department of Corrections to stop the release of felons from parole supervision. David L. Dalton, assistant to Commonwealth's Attorney Eddy Montgomery, says he will ask those released be rearrested or placed back under supervision. Tapp ruled Kentucky had applied the new provisions illegally.
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