What Could Go Wrong?

It's not like they're going to return to a life of theft, narcotics sales and mayhem, right?

• Gov. Quinn Tuesday defended his plan to release up to 1,000 inmates, a step that begins this week and eventually could save the cash-strapped state $5 million a year.

  By the end of this week, 62 non-violent offenders who are within a year of their scheduled release dates will be freed in the first wave of Quinn's early-release initiative.

• Quinn said those released will be under "constant electronic monitoring" while on parole, and the governor expressed optimism that none of those being set free early will be a threat to society.

  "Hopefully they learned their lessons in jail and won't repeat their crimes," Quinn told reporters.

They'll be wearing electronic monitoring bracelets? Well that makes it all OK! Thank goodness we'll be protected. We were worried for a second there. In the meantime, how about we get a gander at that list of names governor and maybe make an educated guess at what their recidivism rate will be? We're going to take a stab at it and say it'll be around 85% minimum.

"Hopefully they learned their lessons..." isn't going to cut it when one of these assholes pulls a "Willie Horton" on the south side.