The GOP curse of the 2006 elections, scandal after scandal after scandal, shows no signs of relenting. This just in from the Boston Herald, Mitt's hometown paper:
Some 118 killers and rapists were sprung early from prison under former Gov. Mitt Romney’s watch even as he has expressed outrage on the presidential campaign trail over a judge who freed a violent ex-con now accused of killing again.But there's more. Remember Romney whining a few weeks back about a convicted criminal who was released in Massachusetts by a judge? Well, it seems Romney refused to take action while he was governor that could have kept the criminal behind bars. More after the jump...:
The inmates released under Romney, a Herald review found, were allowed to walk out the gates by the Department of Correction by claiming so-called “good time” that in some cases substantially reduced their sentences.
Ninety-five of those inmates were convicted of manslaughter, 20 were locked up for rape and three were juveniles convicted of first-degree murder, records show.
Last November, an outraged Romney demanded Judge Kathe Tuttman resign for releasing Tavares - who had just served 16 years for slashing his mother to death with a carving knife - over the objections of Worcester prosecutors who warned her of his violent history.
But the state probe first reported by the Herald showed that the DOC [Department of Corrections] under Romney failed to act on disciplinary matters against Tavares, a move that could have kept the killer behind bars nearly a year longer....
Tavares was released early by claiming automatic good time. A probe by Gov. Deval Patrick’s administration found that Tavares should have lost 360 days of that time because of assaults on prison guards that were never punished under Romney.
