[ April 18, 2024 ]
So, so wrong. This, too, will be counted as a “coronavirus death.”
Inmate Freed from Prison Due to Coronavirus Arrested for Murder
By: John Binder, Breitbart News, April 14, 2020:
An inmate freed from a Florida prison on March 19 due to the Chinese coronavirus crisis allegedly committed murder the following day.
Story continues below advertisementJoseph Edwards Williams, 26-years-old, was arrested Monday for an incident that occurred the day after he was released from the Hillsborough County Jail in Tampa, Florida. He is facing second-degree murder charges, WFLA reported.
Williams was released from the county jail along with about 163 other inmates whom officials deemed “non-violent” in an effort to prevent coronavirus outbreaks in the prison.
According to law enforcement, Williams was involved with a March 20 shooting homicide. The shooting occurred just a day after Williams was released from prison. In a statement to the media, Hillsborough Sheriff Chad Chronister said Williams “took advantage” of the jailbreak policy.
“There is no question Joseph Williams took advantage of this health emergency to commit crimes while he was out of jail awaiting resolution of a low-level, non-violent offense,” Chronister said. “As a result, I call on the State Attorney to prosecute this defendant to the fullest extent of the law.”
Williams was previously arrested and serving time for possession of heroin and drug paraphernalia. Now, Williams is being held on a more than $250,000 bond.
The alleged murder comes as thousands of inmates across the country have been released from state and federal prisons in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus. This month, Attorney General William Barr issued a memo allowing three federal prisons to release inmates considered “vulnerable” to home confinement.
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41 Comments
4 years ago
A sheriff in I think it was Alabama released over 4,000 inmates to protect them from the virus and NOW thinks there might be a CRIME SURGE!
DUH!
4 years ago
Apparently he misinterpreted social distancing 6 ft apart. He took it to mean 6 ft under. Another of Jesse Jackson’s youts.
4 years ago
Duh! What did you expect? In my time as a correctional officer, the recidivism rate was 70%, 80% for drug offenders.
4 years ago
Reply to
Drew the Infidel
Random radical thought: what if the drug offenders were given their drugs while in prison (when safely in their cells, not abroad) so they might get equally bored with being high? Idk.
4 years ago
Reply to
Drew the Infidel
You can’t make this shi- up – I don’t know what school system the people went thru that wrought this on the general public – AG Barr? wtf –
4 years ago
Seems like releasing inmates is likely to increase the spread of the Coronavirus.
4 years ago
Reply to
AlgorithmicAnalyst
That’s what I was thinking. They had them incarcerated which is about as socially distant as you can get, other than at a Supermax. How does releasing them help matters?
4 years ago
Reply to
Drew the Infidel
It creates more lawlessness and crime. What is he going to live on with no job? Where is he going to live without money? The questions go on and on and the answers aren’t good. There is nothing good about releasing these people.
4 years ago
Just one look at the face of this subhuman tells you all you need to know. He should be executed.
4 years ago
Reply to
Robert Ta
execution too quick my evening it up would involve
SLOWLY CRUSHING HIS BALLS IN A VISE
SLOWLY SLOWLY
Eddie
4 years ago
This won’t the the one and only such incident. How many convicts are being released, has crime in those areas increased especially violent crimes, and how many murders does the system believe acceptable before admitting it was a mistake.
4 years ago
A person who tattoos his face is psychotic in my non medical opinion
4 years ago
Why was the sheriff allowed to release prisoners?
If you really want to believe this virus excuse for letting him and others out, why not segregate people that got the virus IN THE PRISON? His actions make no sense at all. Also end visiting hours. Where happened to common sense?
4 years ago
WOW….didn’t see THAT coming…….
4 years ago
Look at that mug shot. Tyrone be sayin’……..IDINNDOOONUFFFFIN’ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
4 years ago
criminal power
4 years ago
Imagine THAT face as the last one you saw before you died. Ugh, poor devil whoever the victim was. How about prosecuting the persons who released him for murder? There will be more!
4 years ago
Why do we have prisons? To reform criminals? To punish criminals? To keep criminals away from the general public? To provide housing for criminals at taxpayer expense? We seem to be failing at every level where rehabilitation matters most.
4 years ago
Reply to
Philip
That’s why the violent worthless ones need to be put down immediately and the others will see that if they try to come back to prison with a violent act they will have the same happen to them.
4 years ago
Reply to
Philip
Which means the LAWS are failing and need to be corrected to save our society!
4 years ago
Reply to
patd
Laws are 100% ok. It’s when the enforcers of the law stop caring about those they are supposed to protect when things fall apart. When anyone can be arrested for anything that’s kind of a yuge problem.
4 years ago
Earlier, in Plant City Fl. a robber held up a SUNOCO gas station. The security video shows the clerk giving the robber the money. Then the robber, for no reason, except pure demonic evil shot the clerk in the face.
4 years ago
Looks like COVID-19 is deadly in more ways than first thought. I hope Governor DeSantis executes this P.O.S. quickly.
4 years ago
Let all the criminals out of prison. While our kids do home schooling, we can conduct home executions
4 years ago
EVERYONE, instrumental in William’s release, should be held & tried as an accessory to Murder ……
Hillsborough Sheriff Chad Chronister and the State Attorney General should be held & tried for Murder along with Williams
4 years ago
But as tender-heart liberals would point out, if he stayed in prison the poor dear might have gotten sick.
4 years ago
WHY ARE WE NOT SURPRISED AT THE COLOR !!!!! THANKS AGAIN DEMOCRATS. TO BAD THE FAMILY OF THE VICTIM DOESN’T HAVE ANY MONEY TO HIRE A KICK ASS LAWYER TO SUE THE DAMNED CITY AND IT’S SO CALLED LEADERS INTO THE POOR HOUSE.
4 years ago
Why isn’t he facing first degree murder?
4 years ago
What does he have to do with the site? Is he a Moslem?
4 years ago
Boy, that’s the last thing I expected.
Lock up the clowns that that let him go.
Fringing idiots, accessories to murder.
4 years ago
If he killed oen of my family members then the ones responsible would be sued to no limit.
4 years ago
AND SUCH A NICE LOOKING YOUNG MAN !
