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Pam Roach's son released early, to Pam Roach

By emmettoconnell
Sun Oct 29, 2006 at 05:56:53 AM PST
Section: Diary Topic: Repubs

[Front paged NM. Stephen Roach, the son of 31st District Senator Pam Roach, is a high-risk four-time offender -- a drug-dealer categorized as "Risk Management A" for stranger violence. Soon after Tough-on-Crime Pam spoke with the head of the Dept. of Corrections, the officers in charge of Stephen's case file were explicitly directed by their superiors to not correct Stephen's file to note his violence and high risk status. According to this PI article, had the case file been corrected, Stephen's sentence would have been 103 days longer.]

Apparently, Pam Roach's son was "mis-classified" and therefore released early on a prison sentance that should have lasted, oh a few more years at least.

The Seattle PI has the story from yesterday:

A 16-year Republican legislator, Pam Roach has championed bills ratcheting up a wide range of criminal penalties. Endorsed by the union representing Corrections employees, she has been in leadership roles on the Senate's Law and Justice, and Government Operations and Elections committees.
Roach, who is seeking re-election Nov. 7, denied pressing for her son's release. She said she called Clarke to complain that the officers checking the suitability of her home hadn't removed their shoes at her request.
"I had nothing to do with whenever (Stephen) gets in or gets out," Roach said in an interview. "I would never interject myself like that. I would never do that."
After the phone call, however, Stephen Roach wound up being placed in the senator's home without a completed inspection.

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