Parole officers supervised at least 82 zombies who, when they were live humans, died anywhere from six months to 19 years ago
Bob Walsh says: “It would seem to me that they were using the dead caseload to pump up their stats without the bother of having to actually do anything.”
This sort of reminds me of back in the early ‘70s when there were two zombies enrolled at College of the Mainland. One day, a thoroughly disgusted Registrar called me into her office and said, “Here I want to show you something.” The Registrar, one of the very few conservatives on the Marxist dominated campus, showed me the final grades from two courses. It seems that a student in one English class made an A and another student in a Sociology class also made an A. What disgusted the Registrar was that both students had died during the first week of that semester.
TWO FIRED AFTER BOARD OF PROBATION & PAROLE AUDIT
NewsChannel5.com
October 3, 212
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Two people have been fired after a state audit of Board of Probation & Parole found employees made annual arrest checks of at least 82 dead parolees.
State officials met Wednesday morning to go over the results of an audit that found parole officers were still checking up on parolees who had been dead more than a decade.
Lawmakers raised concern about how these actions affected public safety.
"It's troubling enough to know we have employees supervising dead people but those dead aren't a menace to society, so the greater concern is what about the employees that are claiming to supervise people who are a threat to society," asked State Senator Kerry Roberts.
The audit of the Board of Parole discovered employees were making arrest checks of parolees that had been dead anywhere from less than six months to more than 19 years.
In at least two cases, officers completed documents stating that the offenders were still alive.
The audit results were released on Monday.
In a statement on the audit, Comptroller Justin Wilson said, "If parole officers are supervising dead people, this is a waste of taxpayer dollars and makes us wonder about the supervision of parolees living in our communities."
The audit also found that many probation and parole officers were not completing all the supervision requirements. There were many instances of no evidence that officers tried to contact offenders.
In Wednesday's special meeting, lawmakers recommended the auditor probe the agency against next year to ensure the problems are fixed.
The Department of Correction Commissioner Derrick Schoffield couldn't give a timeline and when he believed he could address all the problems, but he says it will be done.
"We're already in the process of looking at those and fixing them, " said Schoffield. "What I will say is that we're looking at everyday, and public safety is not just one event, it is something that is ongoing."
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