The Crime Scene
Gov. Perdue puts kibosh on inmate release
Many people have been upset about the possibility of 20 convicted felons, mostly for murder and rape, being set free and with little supervision. Gov. Bev Perdue didn't like the idea, either.
In a press release Thursday, she said:
"Like most of my fellow North Carolinians, I believe life should mean life, and even if a life sentence is defined as 80 years, getting out after only 35 is simply unacceptable."
Read Perdue's full press release and comments from Attorney General Roy Cooper here.
She said legal issues involving credits for good behavior must be resolved first.
She questions whether the N.C. Department of Correction had the legislative authority to apply the credits to inmates serving life sentences. Until the issue is resolved, the inmates won't be released, she said.
The inmates were set to be released next Thursday after convicted killer Bobby Bowden argued a state law from 1970s defined a life sentence as 80 years. The law was changed a few years later.
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