James Barcia: “we did have several instances in Michigan, I would say to the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. Conyers], one that I can…”

“we did have several instances in Michigan, I would say to the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. Conyers], one that I can think of when I was a State legislator back in Lansing, in which a person had committed two second degree murders, served 4 years on the first sentence, 8 years or about 6 years before he was paroled to a halfway house in Lansing on the second offense, and then also continued, and strangled and raped a young lady in east Lansing and killed a police officer. As he was driving her car through downtown, he committed a small traffic infraction, was pulled over by a Lansing police officer, and was shot. The corrections department in that case had paroled him a bit earlier. By mistake, the computer had credited him with too much good time. But I was a member of the State senate when that family brought a lawsuit against the Michigan Department of Corrections because of their losses, and the losses in two families could have been prevented had he been incarcerated for the full length of his sentence.”