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North Carolina Bracing For Release Of 20 Violent Inmates
October 16, 2009 2:13 p.m. EST
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Kris Alingod - AHN Contributor
Raleigh, NC (AHN) - North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue is consulting legal advisers and the state Justice Department about how to keep 20 prisoners convicted of violent crimes from being released at the end of the month because of a ruling by the state Supreme Court last week.
A 60-year-old man convicted nearly four decades ago on two counts of first degree murder, Bobby Bowden, won his legal battle last week. Sentenced in 1975 to two concurrent life sentences, he filed a petition in 2005 saying his was due for release since a 1974 statute made clear that a life sentence is equivalent to 80 years in prison.
Bowden, who had been denied parole every year since 1987, had also cited the 1981 Retroactive Provision of the Fair Sentencing Act, requiring his sentence to be halved to 40 years because of good behavior. He won a favorable ruling last year from the state Court of Appeals, and this month from the North Carolina Supreme Court. The latest ruling means that a number of prisoners will be released because of a loophole in the law.
Bowden will be released on Oct. 29 along with 19 other prisoners, including one who raped a 12-year-old girl at knife point, another who abducted and raped a nine-year-old. Seven of the prisoners were prior death row inmates.
The state Department of Corrections is working to notify victims or families of victims of the prisoners, but does not have current information to locate or contact all pertinent individuals. It is also developing a re-entry program for the inmates, but participation in the initiative will not be mandatory since the court's decision bars any kind of post-release monitoring.
"I'm appalled that the state of North Carolina is being forced to release prisoners who have committed the most heinous of crimes, without any review of their cases," Perdue said in a statement. "I don't believe the General Assembly's intent in 1974 was to let these violent offenders out of prison early. Releasing these potentially dangerous criminals is not in the best interest of the state or our citizens."
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