re: Not getting timely released from jail after sentence ends

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The haphazard manner in which DOC calculates time is one of the main drivers of overdetention and has resulted in multiple lawsuits, two of which the department recently settled for a total $250,000, records show.

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If people don’t care about the injustice of it, Cameron said, maybe they’ll be concerned about the money wasted incarcerating two men long past their lawful release dates. The state overdetained Owens and Chowns a combined 2,216 days. At an average cost of $54.20 per day to house an inmate, that’s an extra $120,107 taxpayers spent – not including the court settlements that came later.

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Corrections previously attempted to replace CAJUN in 2015. It invested $3.6 million in a new data system that went live in June of that year but was taken down 46 days later because DOC didn’t properly test it or train staff in its use, the auditor wrote. In October 2017, the state paid third-party contractor Sirius Computer Solutions $49,000 to determine if the new system could be salvaged. Sirius concluded it could not. DOC spokesman Ken Pastorick said they are working on a new replacement system, though he did not provide a date when it might be online.

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