Well, that wasn’t subtle at all. Do tell us how you really feel, Steve.

I know I’m not the only one fed up, because in surveying the video, I found this guy, who is clearly over it all.

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I feel you, fam.

Anyway, as KSLA notes, Prator gave out a list of 33 inmates who would be the first to be released on Nov. 1. Some of those on the list did not qualify for release until 2025, mind you, with charges ranging from possession with intent to distribute marijuana and aggravated flight to DWI and illegal possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

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However, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Correction Secretary James Le Blanc told the news station that he wasn’t sure where Prator was getting his information and facts, and cited inaccuracies in Prator’s assessment of the act.

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“It’s not like it’s some opening of the gates and everybody’s releasing here,” Le Blanc said. “This is 1,400 inmates that are going to 21 different districts.

“I have all the respect in the world for Sheriff Prator. I just don’t know if he really knows what the numbers look like,” he added.

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Le Blanc told KSLA that after the first wave of 1,400 inmates are released, releases would taper down to about 30 a month, and once again, it would only affect nonviolent and non-sex offenders who qualify.

As for the 192 inmates who Prator said were going to be released from Caddo, well, Le Blanc said that as far as he knows, the act only releases 35 come November.

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“We can put people that need to be in these beds in. More violent offenders and sex offenders and people that we need to be dealing with and providing the adequate resources and programs to while they’re in prison,” Le Blanc told KSLA.

Read more at KSLA-TV.