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MDFF2008 · Jan 16, 2014

We need someone with some time who can do this:

Take a look at all persons released early with good time credits over the last year.

Then take out those in jail for gun crimes.

Now, look at MD case search and the news. Did any of them re-offend?

gmkoh · Jan 17, 2014

According to testimony from the floor given during the hearings of the full house last year on SB281, 70% of Baltimore homicides were committed by criminals on early release. 40% were committed by criminals on early release for violent crimes.

Doesn't give you the percentage of early releasers who commit crimes other than murder..but it is an indictment of the system. Yet the administration countered that early release is a valuable rehabilitation tool and helps somehow to keep the CO's safe.

highfructosecornsyrup · Jan 17, 2014

wasnt there a proposal in sb281 to not offer parole to offenders of violent crimes and crimes involving firearms?

I cant believe they shut that down...

rdc · Jan 17, 2014

This article has some interesting stats
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/20...ings-stanley-brunson-baltimore-murder-victims

I coted them in most of my letters last year. Any responses I got back from unfriendlies ignored them.

Straightshooter · Jan 17, 2014

highfructosecornsyrup said:
wasnt there a proposal in sb281 to not offer parole to offenders of violent crimes and crimes involving firearms?

I cant believe they shut that down...

Yes. The amendment was accepted and then a revote was ordered and it failed.

MDFF2008 · Jan 17, 2014

We really need someone who can produce a report on this.

It would be great to show that their intransigence on passing this amendment cost lives.

MJD438 · Jan 17, 2014

If I knew where to find the first two data points, I would try to look at it over the weekend.

Mr H · Jan 17, 2014

I hunted on the Corrections site and found no information newer than 2011

The "public info" sites I looked at all required specific inmate information

Hopalong · Jan 17, 2014

Looks like we may have to brute force this. It's almost as if Maryland is trying to make it harder for us to find this data.

I'd start with publicly available lists of homicide victims, like this one, and get a list of victims.

Then, go to MD Case Search and search everyone on that list as both a "Defendant" and an "Other". This should find past criminal activities of victims and, if I understand Case Search properly, suspects who were brought to trial for their killing.

Then for any suspects found, do a case search on them to see if they were out on early release, parole, etc.

This should give us a partial picture of the kinds of people being shot, and more importantly (and to Greg's point), it may give us some insight into who's shooting them and whether they were out on early release.

This solution is not elegant, and will likely take a lot of time and patience. But it could work.

Who's game?

JailHouseLiar · Jan 17, 2014

OK, I'd be game to contribute. That means we'll need a project manager, parse out the time frames, develop the sources we'll use, resources others may run across, etc.

We'd need to plan the work, then work the plan. Work smarter, not harder as much as possible.

Another thing that occurred to me is: this data may already exist somewhere, so going directly at it via FOIA, or MD Sunshine law (or whatever the name) may be a viable shortcut; however, not being one to trust and NOT verify, I'd also like to do at least some independent research to see if things match at random sample points.

dogbone · Jan 17, 2014

Some very interesting stuff on "good time credits" here:

http://pagecroyder.blogspot.com/2010/02/early-release-for-bad-behavior.html

Justin Bolden, who was imprisoned for an attempted robbery (that ended in the victim’s murder by a co-defendant), was twice found guilty of assaulting another inmate and once possessed a weapon, among other offenses. He was sanctioned by being segregated and/or losing visitation rights. But he got to keep all of his good conduct credits.

Charles Ravenscroft was held in maximum security for behavior that included being “involved in stabbing of other inmate while serving [disciplinary segregation]” and for “assaultive behavior both in DOC and while [in an out-of-state prison.]” He also was convicted in state court for assaulting a correctional officer and sentenced to a year. Yet despite two DOC administrative convictions for assaults on inmates, two more for possessing a weapon and another two for disobeying orders, he kept his good conduct credits, too.

Brooklyn · Jan 17, 2014

If we are looking to see if early released criminals commit more crimes we would also need the names of the perps... not the victims... the murder data is of dead folks.... victims.

It will tell us how many criminals are murdered because they are not locked up...is that what we want?

On the other hand. .... can we find out how many murders are ever cleared.... can we get access to the investigation ....

I am thinking no access to ongoing investigation

So that leaves what. ..

What % are ever closed? Can we get that info..

Edit : sorry I misread Hopalongs post .. Cell phones are not easy to work on -- and my eyes are definitely getting old..

Not sure how much time I will have .. but we need to avoid doing the same work twice ....

will try an do a few to see if ir gives good info ..

Brooklyn · Jan 17, 2014

http://foxbaltimore.com/news/featur...city-nearing-50-2013-24216.shtml#.UtnShfQo6Rg

Homicide clearance rate is about 50% -- thats arrest I am guessing not conviction..

any info on conviction rate?

also I was wondering if ca contact to a crime reporter might lead to good sources ...

Sportstud4891 · Jan 17, 2014

gprimr1 said:
We need someone with some time who can do this:

Take a look at all persons released early with good time credits over the last year.

Then take out those in jail for gun crimes.

Now, look at MD case search and the news. Did any of them re-offend?

Where can we find the list of all persons released early last year? Is there a public list?

Mr H · Jan 17, 2014

This is question number one. Right now, we just don't know.

Sportstud4891 · Jan 17, 2014

I don't mind spending some time on this but I don't know where to start.

Brooklyn · Jan 17, 2014

does md have the concept of a parole officer? Do they have to file reports ?

I am still new to MD so I don't know a lot that I guess I should ...

Brooklyn · Jan 17, 2014

http://www.dpscs.state.md.us/publicservs/pdfs/open_parole_hearings_2013.pdf

Some parole hearings are open to the public ...

This may mean open records ..

madmantrapper · Jan 17, 2014

Brooklyn said:
http://www.dpscs.state.md.us/publicservs/pdfs/open_parole_hearings_2013.pdf

Some parole hearings are open to the public ...

This may mean open records ..

Looking through the case search for some of these people is tough because it is hard to figure out if you have the correct one. It looks like one of them was sentenced to two concurrent 20 year sentences and was up for parole after 10. He was charged in district court with 1st degree murder and in circuit court was reduced to 2nd degree murder.

synuepka · Jan 17, 2014

Compiling information on those released early will be difficult from public resources. The formatting on case search is not always consistent, limiting what can be done automatically. However, it is possible to extract large data sets from case search for a specific court of a specific case type as the case number formats are somewhat standardized. This could be useful if you wanted to see, for example, how often career criminals who are caught with firearms are imprisoned for any length of time (rarely, from what I've seen in case search).

Attached is a table with shooting victims so far this year in Baltimore City. Note how many have violent criminal histories - virtually all of these individuals are involved in narcotics distribution. Nearly a third on the list were charged with attempted first degree murder in Maryland at some point in their lives, with plea bargains being the most common resolution to their cases.

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