April 2, 2008 - 12:00 a.m. EST
Somebody messed up pretty big.
Two men can just walk out of the Tuscola Residential Re-Entry program without being noticed until they jump the fence?
While it may be a residential program, it’s not exactly a day program where people choose to chill out and do arts and crafts. The Michigan Department of Corrections sentences people to the facility to learn how to live in the outside world.
These people have already been in prison for quite some time and are ready to go back to the real world, or they have been paroled and messed up yet again, only to land in a place like Caro’s residential re-entry facility.
Even if they are going to get out in a few short months, they are sentenced there.
The minute these two men left the building Sunday morning, or even left their sleeping quarters, somebody should’ve known about it. Somebody should’ve seen it on camera and somebody should’ve stopped them!
It took two bed checks to even discover that two inmates - not one - were missing from the facility. By the time the second bed check was done, over an hour had lapsed.
No K-9’s were called in. No special agencies were called in and yet the men wandered around lost for some time before stealing a car to get away from the area.
Didn’t the facility care that these guys were wandering in the woods for a couple of hours?
Somebody should have cared and somebody had better start paying attention before something worse happens than a car being stolen.
The local law enforcement agencies that assisted in the capture of these guys, including the Tuscola County Sheriff’s Department, who notified the Neighborhood Watch and the Michigan State Police Caro Post who investigated the incident and notified area gas stations to be on the lookout, should be commended for the work they did Sunday. Other officers in neighboring jurisdictions also did an excellent job in apprehending these individuals.
However, the Michigan Department of Corrections seriously needs to re-think their methodology when going after fence-scaling parolees.
Parolees do not and should not get to decide when they are going home.
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July 27, 2008
2:17 p.m.Report inappropriate content
The mistake you are making here comes
in assuming that the Michigan D.O.C.
cares about what happens at the Caro facility.
They don't.
The state government under Jennifer Granholm
is in the process of returning the cost of
incarcerating criminals back onto the backs
of private citizens in a effort to save money
for other more worthy projects that liberals
love.....windmills, welfare, foreign trips etc.
Criminals cost everyone. The question is do we
pay individually in terms of fear, victimhood,
and higher insurance costs, or does the state
(us again) pay the costs generated by allowing
sociopathic people in our midst?
Politicians would rather people with no particular
political clout bear the costs, and so that's what
they do. Later they can say they are going to get
tough on crime so we'll rush out and vote them in.
Guderian
September 28, 2008
1:05 a.m.Report inappropriate content
i retired from the regional center a couple of years ago, and i was there from the time they only had one cottage of MI'S [mentally ill] until it was converted all to MI, i have said it before and i'll say it again, as far as the prison goes, even when it was a prison instead of a re-entry program, and the entire caro area is in far greater danger from the regional center than the prison ever thought of being, they have large numbers of the criminally insane out there then they used to and i am so glad that i am not there anymore to be used as a punching bag for the inmates, and that may not be the most pc word there is for them but that is what they are, the vast majority are court ordered if not all of them by now are court ordered, i wonder if the guy that killed his mother and ate her face and eyeballs is still there, as there was such an uproar about letting him loose that they decided to wait 6months and try again with hopefully far less publicity, and that guy is not the unususl out there, the vast majority of them have committed crimes that they have not paid for, at the very least they should have been found guilty but mentally ill and placed in prison with mental health treatment on the side, at least that is my opinion and that was the way it was when i was working there, THE REAL PLACE TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT IS THE CARO REGIONAL CENTER, THE WHOLE PLACE SHOULD BE FENCED OFF, AND IF THE FORENSIC CENTER CAN DO SO AND KEEP THEM LOCKED DOWN FAR BETTER THAN CRC DOES THEN THE FENCES SHOULD GO UP HERE TOO. BUT ALAS THEY HAVE MORE RIGHTS THEN THE REST OF THE US THE ONES THAT PAY FOR THEM TO BE THERE AND THEN LIKE THE LAST GUY WITH THE HAMMER THE STATE COULD NOT BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE AND SUED, WHAT A FREAKING CIRCUS THAT WAS, I HOPE THE PEOPLE THAT WERE ATTACKED AND INJURED BY THAT MONSTER ARE DOING BETTER, I AS A RETIRED EMPLOYEE FROM THERE KNOW AND HATE THAT THIS HAPPENED TO YOU AND WERE NEVER GIVEN DECENT SATISFACTION FROM THAT BUNCH OUT THERE IN CHARGE, YOU SHOULD HAVE RECIEVED MUCH COMPENSATION FROM THEM AND THE PLACE SHOULD HAVE BEEN FENCED OFF, AGAIN I HOPE YOU ARE DOING BETTER
September 28, 2008
7:53 a.m.Report inappropriate content
I have heard this before about the Caro Regional Center. I wish it could be eliminated.
September 29, 2008
4:34 a.m.Report inappropriate content
i've an employee with the department of community mental for over 30 yrs. Sure ,we've had our problems with our type of pts. but by putting a femce around the diameter of the place would classify it as a prison,which we are NOT!We have benn serving our community for over 92 yrs. When we had a chance to put a juvenile place in the woods west of the Caro Center,it was YOU PEOPLE who voiced your opinions of (these kids will go to school with your kids) and so it wasn't to be. Think of the revenue it would have bought to this town..People visiting their famliy ,spending $$$$ at OUR stores.staying at OUR hotels & motels.Eating at OUR restaurants...BUT NO it went to Saginaw...This town can't afford to lose anymore companies.Our 3 biggest employers in this county are walbro wal-mart & caro center with over 700 people working here ...We can put the blame on democrates & or republicans for the auto industry failure .So in other words opinions are like a##*&^%s ,everyone got one.
October 2, 2008
12:09 a.m.Report inappropriate content
Ask the VICTIMS of the attack of the escapee from the Regional Center if they feel safe living near it. Oh, they moved out of the area. Is that what this area is to become? A place for criminals (I refer to all who commit crimes whether CONVICTED or not) to be allowed to go free and scare the law abiding citizens into moving elsewhere. I am not saying there shouldn't be prisons in this area to provide jobs, but treat the inmates as inmates. Don't treat this area as an experimental area to see if the criminals will behave when left alone. These people need to be under constant supervision and not given a chance to escape and harm innocent citizens.
August 11, 2009
5:54 p.m.Report inappropriate content
I'll say it again, the administration at the Caro Center was grossly negligent when the attack occurred and unfortunately for the victims are protected by governmental immunity. Things have improved to some degree but the Department of Community health has never really held anyone all that accountable. Can this happen again with the current (same) administration? Absolutely. If anyone knew how high the employee injury rate is there they would better understand. The prosecuting attorney will not prosecute no matter how severe the injury to the employee or how willful the act. Prosecution only took place against this attacker because of public pressure. Many assaults warranting court intervention happen at he Center that only those affected know about. Just wait until these same patients get out on the street. Either by escape or legal release.
October 23, 2009
2:08 p.m.Report inappropriate content
And the government wants to move Guantanamo to Mi.