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Technology Stocks : Y2K (Year 2000) Stocks: An Investment Discussion -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RBB who wrote (10940)	4/12/1998 9:48:00 AM
From: R. Bond	Respond to of 13949

Y2K related?? Today's Sunday Times has an article on the escape of an extremely dangerous inmate from a Scottish prison due to his mistakenly being classified by the computer as eligible for unsupervised work release. No mention of Y2K, but food for thought. >> Johnston ordered that the 10-year sentence he passed begin from November 1997, the end of the sentence Angus was already serving. Prison insiders said it was referred to as a post-dated sentence and that it caused problems for the computer programme normally used to calculate release and tariff dates. An error was spotted by staff at Shotts prison, Lanarkshire, where Angus was being held and a recalculation was ordered. But the result was another error which suggested Angus was much further into his sentence than was the case. This allowed him to transfer to better conditions at Saughton where he arrived together with the wrong data entered on his computer file. Good behaviour earned him a C category classification, quickly followed by a D category which allowed him to secure an outside work placement when he was effectively only five months into a 10-year sentence for violent offences. Prisoners allowed to go on outside placements are effectively being prepared for release. Ultimately, if his absconding had not drawn attention to the errors, he might have been released years early from his sentence. << Cheers, Bond