Will anyone pay the price for prisoners early release?

Just before Christmas we learned that over the past 13 years some 3,200 inmates from the Washington State Department of Corrections facilities had been prematurely released.

When I heard the news, the initial thought was at least this bureaucratic screw up didn’t result in the loss of millions, if not billions of taxpayer dollars.

But it wasn’t long before the price became incalculable with the loss of lives.

At least two deaths that we know of have now been the result of a software glitch in DOC computer systems that mistakenly opened the cell doors for 26-year-old Jeremiah Smith and Robert J...