New York, where you can now be fined for leaving your home under the wrong circumstances and where churches are being threatened with permanent closure if they don’t comply with the state’s COVID-19 lockdown mandates, has just released dozens of convicted criminals including three child rapists, over concerns that the coronavirus would begin to spread in the state’s crowded prisons.
Monroe County, reportedly released 50 prisoners from the Monroe County Jail on Saturday, according to WIVB. Of those, nine now-former prisoners have been moved to the Holiday Inn Express in Greece, New York.
WIVB continues:
Among the inmates known to be staying at the Holiday Inn Express are four registered sex offenders. Three of whom are registered as level 3 sex offenders and are deemed by New York courts as most likely to re-offend. All three of the level 3 sex offenders staying at the Holiday Inn Express have been convicted for the rape of minors.
And apparently, Greece Police Chief Patrick Phelan isn’t happy about it.
“It doesn’t make any sense. If you could present an argument to me that makes sense, I’m willing to listen. But this doesn’t make any sense,” Phelan said, WIVB reported. “So you have a violent criminal who’s done time in state prison who’s been given the chance of parole, and not followed the conditions of their parole. That’s who you’re talking about right now.”
Phelan added that his department wasn’t given any notice that the released prisoners were being dumped in their backyard.
“We weren’t told by anyone,” Phelan said. “I think good practice would be if you’re going to release convicted felons. Some of them very violent some of those level 3 sex offenders. You might want to give law enforcement the heads up.”
The New York Department of Corrections and Community Services said they ordered the release of such prisoners due to the “growing number of COVID-19 cases in local jails over the past few days and weeks, saying that their “top priority remains the public health and safety of New Yorkers during this global public health emergency and this measure will further protect a vulnerable population from contracting and transmitting this infectious disease.”
No word yet on the “vulnerable population” of children now at risk because the state, which has deemed people meeting in groups for prayer too dangerous to be allowed, thinks letting convicted child rapists out onto the streets is the “safe” thing to do.