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Comments
bevy 4 years, 1 month ago
Guess he missed his 3 hots and a cot. He doesn't look too unhappy about going back in. Glad no one was seriously hurt!
Ron Holzwarth 4 years, 1 month ago
I am thinking bad thoughts about the Parole Board.
ebyrdstarr 4 years, 1 month ago
There was no parole board involved. For some odd reason, DOC still refers to it on its website as a person being "paroled," but release terms are set purely based on statute. No person or board is responsible for deciding when the vast majority of convicted felons are released. This guy had a set term of months and was released when he served that term (minus any good time he earned), none of which was in the discretion of anyone.
jafs 4 years, 1 month ago
Then why would he be called a "parole absconder", which implies he was on parole, and violated the terms of that?
ebyrdstarr 4 years, 1 month ago
Because "postrelease supervision absconder" is clunkier and doesn't fit in the box on KDOC's website. Defendants who are sentenced to the grid do receive a set term of months after they are released when they are supervised. Screwing up means they can be incarcerated again for short periods of time. It functions like parole supervision except when a defendant will be released is not decided by a parole board and there's not much discretion about how long he'll serve if he's found to have violated postrelease.
jafs 4 years, 1 month ago
Ah, thanks.
I didn't know that. Does everybody have to do that, even if they're served out their complete sentence, and aren't being released early?
If so, it seems a bit harsh to me - they've already done their time.
ebyrdstarr 4 years, 1 month ago
Postrelease supervision is part of every grid sentence. Even if the judge forgets to mention it at sentencing, it's just imposed as a matter of law. How much postrelease any defendant serves is entirely dependent upon the severity level of the crime. If a defendant is released before serving the entire prison term because of earning good time credit (the only way a grid defendant gets out "early"), that time gets added on to the postrelease period. The idea is that we want released convicts to have some help in transitioning to life outside. It doesn't really function that way, sadly, but that is the idea.
jafs 4 years, 1 month ago
Thanks again.
That sounds like a good idea to me, rather than an extension of punishment. It's too bad it doesn't actually work well.
dncinnanc 4 years, 1 month ago
Drugs are bad, mm'kay...
Matthew Herbert 4 years, 1 month ago
Time for crowbar control legislation, a 5-day waiting period at Home Depot and "no crowbar" signs on public buildings.
bearded_gnome 4 years, 1 month ago
Allender had recently been paroled from Kansas prisons, where he served time for burglary and theft convictions in Shawnee County. Douglas County prosecutors charged him today with aggravated robbery and attempted aggravated robbery in connection with two separate incidents Sunday morning and evening.
---plus the obscounding? sure sounds like he got paroled awfully quickly!
I'm also thinking this dude was needing some useful edumacation in a useful skil set in the joint?
hiphopsux 4 years, 1 month ago
how do you escape from prison and then get out 2 years later? Wasn't the writing on the wall here?
patkindle 4 years, 1 month ago
just another poor mis-understood doper so sad, it wasn't his fault, blame someone else drugs are good, everyone in Lawrence says so
himni 4 years, 1 month ago
Maybe if you don't know a person or thier situation you shouldn't be so quick to pass judgement.... Yes drugs are bad. But life can be too. Or at least where I come from anyways. He is a good man that has never had a person crime before. Personally I know, if he even did commit these crimes, he never intended on hurting anyone.
Ewok79 4 years ago
It looks like those state budget cuts are taking effect. Thanks Sam.
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