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California keeps its prisoners too long.Times investigation shows that good behavior isn't properly counted; errors could cost $44 million in this fiscal year.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

California keeps its prisoners too long Times investigation shows that good behavior isn't properly counted; errors could cost $44 million in this fiscal year. By Michael Rothfeld Los Angeles Times Staff Writer 6:37 PM PST, February 16, 2008 SACRAMENTO - The counselor at Salinas Valley State Prison paid a surprise visit to Nicholas Shearin's cell with good news: He would go home in two days, after a decade behind bars. She did not mention that he should have been freed eight months earlier. Shearin was among as many as 33,000 state inmates whose sentences may have been wrong because they were not given all the time off they earned for good behavior and for working in prison. Records obtained by The Times show that in August, the state sampled some inmate cases and discovered that in more than half -- 354 of 679 -- the offenders were set to remain in prison a combined 104 years too long...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 17, 2008 (boomark / email).