Negligence of Colorado gov. workers on 2 occasions enabled recent brutal murder, let out 4 yrs. early, removed ankle bracelet 5 days before murder-BBC

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4/2/13, "Suspect in prison chief murder slipped parole monitoring," BBC

"An ex-convict suspected in the death of Colorado's prisons chief shed a parolee monitoring device days before the murder, officials have said.

Evan Ebel's bracelet, worn as a condition of his release to confirm he was obeying curfew, signalled on 14 March that it had been tampered with.

But officials did not realise he had absconded until five days later - hours before Tom Clements was shot dead.

Ebel, 28, was killed in a shootout with Texas police three days after that.

Also, on Monday Colorado officials acknowledged Ebel was released from prison four years too early due to an apparent courthouse clerical error.

The confusion stemmed from whether he had been ordered to serve a consecutive or simultaneous prison sentence for assaulting a prison officer while incarcerated for an earlier crime."...

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