MI- Mistakenly released sex offenders back in custody

Michigan is a state full of fools all working for the DOC! How difficult is it for a Parole Officer to tell a parolee, hey instead of going to Program A you will go to Program B. Instead of following a logical procedure, they reincarcerate the parolees to simply tell them the same thing, but now they have to go through all the paperwork of releasing them back into the community. Forrest Gump once said: Stupid is as stupid does.

7-2-2009 Michigan:

Parolees weren't placed in correct treatment programs

Michigan prison officials scrambled in the last week to reincarcerate 62 paroled sex offenders who were released without appropriate treatment plans in place, a Michigan Department of Corrections spokesman said today.

The inmates were released June 22-24 after completing pre-parole programming at the Mound and Ryan Correctional facilities in Detroit, but without having been assigned to continuing sex offender therapy, said MDOC spokesman Russ Marlan.

The oversight came to light last week, and all of the prisoners have been returned to custody or placed in an authorized program for parolees, he said.

The sex offender inmates, all of whom had been approved for parole, were to have been placed in one of three programs -- in-patient, out-patient or continued in a secure setting (like prison), Marlan said. But a pair of psychologists who work with the offenders at Mound and Ryan mistakenly placed them in a fourth category not authorized by the department, he said.

State Rep. Rick Jones, R-Grand Ledge, said he was “shocked” by the mistake and has urged Corrections Director Patricia Caruso to make sure it doesn’t reoccur.

Marlan said the release of paroled sex offenders was suspended while the department addresses the issue. ..Source.. by Dawson Bell • Free Press Lansing Bureau