The State - News from Sept. 25, 1989

California has dumped 100 to 200 unsupervised prison inmates each month for the last three years in the Reno area without any notice, state and local officials have charged. Nevada Atty. Gen. Brian McKay said, “It’s a crappy way to conduct law enforcement, especially between two sister states.” He said he has called California Atty. Gen. John K. Van de Kamp to complain. The inmates are paroled from the California Correction Facility in Susanville, hauled by van into Reno to either the airport or the bus station where they are supposed to take transportation to their homes--usually the Los Angeles area. The inmates are supposed to report to their parole officer in their hometowns the next day. Dist. Atty. Mills Lane and Reno Police Chief Robert Bradshaw, in a Reno Gazette-Journal article, said a person just passing through can commit a crime and run. “Those people are almost impossible to catch,” Lane said.