Released to kill.

I am in awe of two stories which are in the news today.

Florida Father Finds Dead Girl in Son's Closet

Parolees Arraigned in Deadly Connecticut Home Invasion

So, on July 4th 2007, we had an illegal immigrant who wasn't deported after only serving a month in jail for "Violently Raping" his half sister. Now we have these two new cases appearing today.

In the first case, I find this really interesting.

Shenfeld was released from jail in February after being arrested and accused of
sexually assaulting two other women.

In the second case, this is what I found interesting.

Komisarjevsky was sentenced to three years in prison in 2002 and six years of
special parole after pleading guilty to 11 counts of second-degree burglary, the
Hartford Courant reported.

and,

Hayes has a 25-year history of burglary and larceny.

So, why is it all of these people are out on our streets? In each of these cases
the person has a long history of crime, or, a serious enough short history to be
considered a threat to society.

Again and again we are seeing stories where released criminals resort to murder afterwards. I am assuming that while in jail they are being told that if you go out in the world to commit crime again, you'd better kill all witnesses. Perhaps I am wrong, but that is becoming a theme in many of the stories I am reading on the national new wires.

I want to know, what was this special parole that Komisarjevsky received?

Why was Jason Shenfeld let go?

And most importantly, why are lives being lost? Has our criminal justice system of the courts become broken?