Now, I’m no fan of bank robbers or people who attempt to bomb police cars.     But former Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olsen pled guilty to her crimes and has been serving her sentence in Chowchilla, California as a model prisoner.

Last week she was released on parole, six years into her twelve year sentence.

However, LAPD re-arrested her five days later, dragged her back to prison, where it was explained that a “miscalculation on her release date” had occurred.

Really?  This couldn’t possibly be about pressure from the LAPD, could it?

And, even if it was a case of bad math (hard as it is to believe that an employee of the California Corrections System wouldn’t be a whiz at accounting), shouldn’t the benefit of the doubt go to the parolee who’s already been out of prison for five days?

Someone needs to get this chick a better lawyer, because this reeks to high heaven of cruel and unusual punishment.  The state shouldn’t be able to give someone her liberty for five days, make her feel her ordeal is over, then yank her back into the clink for a year.  I cry dirty pool!