PRISONER RELEASE PLANS ARE A JUMBLE OF INEFFICIENCIES.(EDITORIAL) From: The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC) | Date: June 25, 1996 | COPYRIGHT 1996 News & Record. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The bureaucratic bumbling has returned.

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Twenty years ago, a News & Record investigation into North Carolina's parole system showed wholesale political influence-peddling, which resulted in inmates being released too soon and a general inefficiency in the system. State laws were changed in an effort to stop such practices.

Those laws worked for a time. But problems with the parole system have resurfaced. Earlier this month, a report from...