"This is James LaDuke, chairman of the state Board of Pardons and Parole. Red asked me to give you a call. I'm afraid I can't help you too much. I don't have the case file on these three men in front of me, so I couldn't tell you why they were released so early into their sentences.All I can say is that we at the board of pardons and parole try our best to make the right decisions about who should be kept behind bars and who should be let go. Our prisons are overcrowded, so sometimes we let prisoners go before they've reached their minimum sentence. We try our best to understand who is a good risk and who is a bad risk. But we don't have a crystal ball."
