[lbo-talk] Kafka land

[Left-Wing Wacko]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Joanna<123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> a friend writes:
>
> ... and this News of the Weird item caught my eye:
>
> The normal way that the U.S. Bureau of Prisons transfers "low-risk"
> inmates between institutions is to buy them bus tickets and release
> them unescorted with an arrival deadline. In the last three years,
> reported the Las Vegas Sun in May, 90,000 inmates were transferred
> this way, and only about 180 absconded. Though supposedly carefully
> pre-screened for risk, one man still on the loose is Dwayne Fitzen, a
> gang-member/biker who was halfway through a 24-year sentence for
> cocaine-dealing. (Since the traveling inmates are never identified as
> prisoners, Greyhound is especially alarmed at the policy.) [San Jose
> Mercury News-Las Vegas Sun, 5-23-09]

Funny!  I would think "low risk" would mean maybe one more year to go
to complete a sentence.  But 12 more years to go?  Hell yea! I would
be running, and who wouldn't be!
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