United States: 3000 prisoners released early by mistake Several thousands of US detainees benefited administrative largesse. They were released earlier than scheduled.

This is not a Christmas present and yet it looks like it. More than 3000 American prisoners of Washington were released earlier than expected due to error corrections.

The problem dates back to 2002, said Tuesday the governor Jay Inslee during a conference presse.Selon Metro Montreal website, the error from a judgment of the Supreme Court was delivered in July 2002.

The error repaired soon

It requires that the state provide credit services for prisoners demonstrating good behavior. Jumping an error attributed too much credit to many prisoners. Consequently, they are out, on average, 49 days earlier than foreseen in their sentence.

All releases under this credit scheme are suspended for the moment, the time that a remission of manual calculation is performed. the error must be repaired early January.