With Inslee’s neck on the line, will heads roll in Department of Corrections prison release scandal?
Washington voters have long memories felt months and even years after a politician’s misstep or scandal. The wrongful early release of 3,200 prisoners, due to a software glitch discovered in 2012 by the Department of Corrections but not yet fixed, casts a chill over Gov. Jay Inslee as he sets out to win a second term. Gov. Jay Inslee celebrates his 2012 election victory. He is a consummate, idealistic, happy-warrior politician. Now, with the Department of Corrections’ wrongful early release of prisoners, Inslee faces a bona fide scandal. The revelation that a fix was inexplicably delayed 16 times — 16 times! — qualifies this as a scandal. It’s a scandal