re: LA DOC wastes millions ever year keeping inmates past their release date

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they do it's just backed up and relies on paperwork from other institutions that may be delivered late

when you're dealing with issues like credit for time served, there may be 3-4 institutions who have to deliver incarceration information for it to count. sometimes you're dealing with city jails that are terribly run without any real administration.

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Correct. DOC was running off Cajun for the longest time (imagine MS DOS) but the new system is integrated with other state systems. Getting records from all of the other institutions (locally) then calculating the time is the problem. And it's not like these are easy calculations either. The good time or diminution calculations are difficult enough but add in many of these fools backing up time on multiple cases across multiple districts (some running concurrent some consecutive) and having different offender classes at different times of different convictions, it is a bitch.