Massive Incompetence in Ontario: Nearly 150 prisoners mistakenly released

At least 143 prisoners were mistakenly allowed to walk out of Ontario correctional facilities over the last eight years — and the provincial government will not say who these prisoners were, how many of them were dangerous, and whether any of them are still at large.

Sixteen months after the Star filed a freedom of information request for the “incident reports” corrections employees must produce after each mistaken release, 143 censored reports covering the period from January 2003 to March 2009 arrived in July. Because the government has long refused to describe how any mistaken release occurred, the reports provide the most complete explanations ever made public.

There is much, however, that the reports do not reveal...

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