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Crowding lets criminal get out of jail free.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 28-FEB-05
Format: Online - approximately 767 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Crowding lets criminal get out of jail free.(Crime)(The county releases an inmate it ordinarily wouldn't have thanks to having only 340 beds available for offenders)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Bill Bishop The Register-Guard

The continuing saga of Lane County's jail bed shortage brought the release last week of a career burglar who served 12 1/2 years in prison following a murder during a 1983 Florida break-in.

Michael William Duska, 44, got out of Lane County Jail because of overcrowding on Tuesday. That was one day before he was scheduled to be in court to get a 34-month prison sentence for burglaries in Lane County - including one on Christmas Day during which a homeowner with a gun confronted him, according to a police report.

Duska did not show up in court to get his sentence, prompting a judge to complain that he...

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