Daily Mail: "Thousands of convicted pedophiles in California are being released from prison in less than a year"

What is going on?

From the article:

  • DailyMail.com’s investigation reveals more than 7,000 sex offenders were convicted of ‘lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years of age’
  • Those 7,000 pedophiles were released the same year they were convicted . . .

and

DailyMail.com compiled the data of the 54,986 sex offenders who were listed on the website in July 2019 and analyzed the results.
It showed 41,794 (76%) committed offenses involving children. . .
The results showed that the average pedophile served two years and 10 months in prison.

Hmmmm…it seems that they should have carved out sex offenders from their non-violent-offender-early-release-program

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Maybe that’s it.

Or maybe not. The article also states

Some 114 men who committed the even worse version of this offense, where the act against the under-14 child was ‘by force or fear’, ended up serving less than a year in prison, according to the data.

It could be a simple oversight in how the early release law was written, but given the second quote from the article I’d have to guess the “oversight” (if that’s all it was) does not exist in a vacuum but rather is part of a culture that repeatedly turns a blind eye to crimes involving children.