Home incarceration isn't really all it's made out to be. Wendy Byrne didn't get a chance to voice her opinion. Instead, she lost her life, brutally executed in New Orleans. One of the killers was on house arrest. Imagine a teenager whose records were sealed because he is a minor- potentially being the trigger man. He was on HOUSE ARREST. Please read the article posted below. Wendy wasn't killed in a domestic violence dispute. But, the point of this article is clear. HOUSE ARREST isn't what most people believe it is. HOUSE ARREST gives violent criminals time out of jail to live their lives with minimal restrictions. Those whose lives are threatened have few rights. The person on HOUSE ARREST can come and go- causing the victims to fear leaving home. We must fight for legislation before more of us who have been threatened with our lives become statistics in the growing number of people who have cried out for help and ended up dead.
Article from the Times Picayune:http://www.nola.com/timespic/stories/index.ssf?/base/news-1/123700811019930.xml&coll=1
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Quarter murder suspect on house arrest at the time of crime
ReplyDelete06:42 PM CST on Friday, February 27, 2009
Katie Moore / Eyewitness News
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Could the murder of a French Quarter bartender have been prevented?... According to Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro, Drey Lewis was wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet at the time of Byrne's murder. He was supposed to be on full house arrest, unable to leave his home. “If it had been working the way that we understand it to work, then Wendy would be with us today,” Malta said about the common perception that electronic monitoring violations automatically trigger an arrest... New Orleans police said they are never notified when someone violates house arrest, but that their only involvement comes after an arrest warrant is issued. According to the electronic monitoring company, TSAP, they only notify the judges, and it’s up to the judges to decide how they want to be notified. “Some of them want quicker response than others...”... So, we question how many more of these people who were supposed to be imprisoned are out there with home monitoring systems but nobody knows they're walking the streets... An anonymous source tells Eyewitness News that the Juvenile Court judges were never notified about a Drey Lewis house arrest violation the night of Byrne's murder...
http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/wwl022709mltasp.d364700.html