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7 Sex Offenders Released Early Due to COVID-19 in Orange County Despite Parole Violations
Title (Dublin Core)
7 Sex Offenders Released Early Due to COVID-19 in Orange County Despite Parole Violations
Description (Dublin Core)
In an effort to slow the spread of Covid-19 inside the nation's correctional facilities a small percentage of inmates have been released early or have been released to house arrest. The thought behind this action is to lessen the number of people inside the facilities allowing more space for social distancing and/or to not expose inmates to a possible death sentence if they were to contract covid and not recover. Though officials have promised not to free any inmate that poses a public safety risk stories like this one appear all over the country. This article states that seven sex offenders, who had served their original sentences but had returned to jail for parole violations, were released early from the Orange County Jail in California. The article was edited a day later to include a statement from the sheriff stating these individuals were not release early but were released by court order.
jail, incarceration, early release, decarceration, sheriff
Date (Dublin Core)
April 28, 2020
Creator (Dublin Core)
City News Service
Contributor (Dublin Core)
Chris Twing
Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
HST580
Partner (Dublin Core)
Arizona State University
Type (Dublin Core)
article
Link (Bibliographic Ontology)
Publisher (Dublin Core)
NBC Los Angeles
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Conflict
English
Crime
English
Government State
English
News coverage
English
Politics
English
Public Space
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
jail
incarceration
early release
sheriff
offender
#lockedupwithcovid
Collection (Dublin Core)
Incarceration
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
06/27/2020
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
07/14/2020
08/02/2022
10/09/2024
Date Created (Dublin Core)
04/29/2020
This item was submitted on June 27, 2020 by Chris Twing using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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