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Charles Oliver | 4.6.2015 6:00 AM


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The Oregon Department of Corrections has apologized after some 8,000 crime victims and their family members got incorrect notices that the criminals who victimized them had been released from prison. Officials blamed a technical glitch that happened during maintenance on the alert system.

Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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