(The Center Square) – More than 700 prisoners released in addition to U.S. Senate candidate Roy Cooper’s historic settlement-based 3,500 have a pattern consistent with either homicide, sex offenses, other violent felonies and recidivism.
At first without names publicly known and with the Department of Public Safety saying prisoners convicted of crimes against other people were ineligible, the more than 4,200 have emerged as anything but and many are back in jail for new crimes. The number beyond 3,500 released by the former governor’s subordinates included 24 charged in homicide-related offenses and 99 charged with sex offenses.
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