Maine Voices: We must limit early release of domestic violence offenders

The rules governing the release of our communities’ most dangerous criminals – those harming people they purport to love – are far too lax.

BY PATRISHA MCLEAN SPECIAL TO THE PRESS HERALD

“Why is the man who strangled me,” a young woman asked, “posting on social media a week after starting his two-year jail sentence?”

One domestic abuse survivor’s decision to break her silence led me to discover that our communities’ most dangerous criminals – those harming people they purport to love – are essentially being granted “Get Out Of Jail Free” cards in a community confinement monitoring program that neither confines nor monitors.

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