The government of the U.S. state of Washington made last Tuesday with an official statement in which he informed the public that a failure in a computer program led to the fact that freedom prematurely were released more than 3,000 prisoners. This extraordinary story has its roots in 2002 when the Supreme court of Washington ordered the Ministry of correctional services to add on to the reduction of term for good behavior the time that the prisoner served in the district prisons. But a computer error resulted in the incorrect calculation of deadlines.
For 13-year-old computer system that combines a prison in Washington state who was mistakenly released prisoners to freedom on average for 49 days ahead (one prisoner was released at a whopping 600 days earlier). Under the early release caused a computer failure were approximately 3,200 prisoners are serving time for crimes of varying severity. This error is not learned yesterday. Knew about it almost from the beginning of the new computer program. But the error in the calculations was constantly postponed, until the new head of the state information technology didn’t sound the alarm.
It would seem, what in it such? Think of it, was released on two months before. But in America these things are most strictly, and that the government of Washington decided to take special measures. All prisoners who have been released prematurely, you will have to study this difference in prison. They will be presented with two choices: either to arrive at the jail and serving your time without interruptions, or come to jail for the night, and in the afternoon to return to his normal life. The second option authorities offered to those people who have already managed to get a new job and don’t want to lose their seats. To fix a software bug, the authorities have already promised January 7, 2016.