The lie of home detention

[king1]

Just as there are hundreds if not more offenders on home D who do not grab a shotgun, or a knife and go murder their workmates. Or near neighbours.

Why should they be further punished because one damned fool couldn't use his brains to make better choices?

But it isn't about the others (whoever they are) it is about this one person who was let out and it would appear prematurely and people have lost their lives.  Those you speak of as hundreds if they pose no threat, fine and that has to be carefully determined before release on HD.  This is not about them is it.

unless you can predict the future there is no way to definitively know with 100% certainty that the individual will behave while on home detention - and the only way to guarantee no individual will cause harm while on home detention would be to cancel the home detention system and penalise the hundreds of other individuals who do respect the system... Not too many would see that as a good thing...

When professionals are dealing with the human mind it can only ever be on a best effort basis, sometimes folks just lose it.  You can't really blame the people in the system if everything has been done correctly up to that point...  In due course we will find out if this was actually the case...