RALEIGH -- The violent North Carolina inmates to be freed this month because of a legal ruling and good conduct credits have racked up more than 250 infractions in prison including fighting, weapon possession and theft.
Department of Correction records reviewed today by The Associated Press show the violations go as far back as the 1970s but also appear as recently as 2008. Each of the 20 inmates has at least two infractions, and combined they have a total of 256.
The inmates are scheduled to be released Oct. 29 because state courts sided with one of them, double murderer Bobby Bowden, that a 1970s law defined a life sentence as 80 years. Credits have shortened that sentence further.
