The Buck Doesn’t Stop Here!

By: itsonlywords (Diary)  |  December 18th at 06:41 PM  | 

I can’t believe when I was pounding away on Christine Gregoire and her Department of Corrections for failing to adequately protect the public from convicted felons (and more here), that I forgot all about the case of Phillip Paul, the insane killer who walked away from a “field trip” to a county fair while in the custody of the Department of Social and Health Services | Read More »

Gregoire’s Political Posturing Over Lakewood Shootings

By: itsonlywords (Diary)  |  December 4th at 11:08 PM  | 

An unfortunate series of break downs in the criminal justice systems in both Washington and Arkansas culminated in the execution of four Lakewood Police Officers by habitual criminal Maurice Clemmons. Governor Christine Gregoire response was to direct “state Corrections Chief Eldon Vail not to accept any new parolees from Arkansas until matters arising from the Maurice Clemmons case have been addressed and resolved,” in order | Read More »