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WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 23, 2015

ALLYN | BAINBRIDGE IS. | BANGOR | BELFAIR | BREMERTON GIG HARBOR | HANSVILLE | INDIANOLA | KEYPORT | KINGSTON $1.00 MANCHESTER | OLALLA | PORT GAMBLE | PORT LUDLOW | PORT ORCHARD | POULSBO | SEABECK | SILVERDALE | SOUTHWORTH | SUQUAMISH Inmates’ early release an error ■ Computer glitch wrongly freed 3,000 By Rachel La Corte Associated Press

OLYMPIA— More than3,000 prisoners in Washington have been mistakenly re- leased early since 2002, because of an error by the state’s Department of Cor- rections that resulted in wrongly calculated sen- tences for about 3 percent MEEGAN M. REID / KITSAP SUN FILE of the prison population. The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz arrived in January at Naval Base Kitsap-Bremerton for maintenance. The Navy announced Tuesday that the carrier will stay in At a news conference an- Bremerton permanently instead of returning to Everett, where it had been homeported. nouncing the error Tuesday, Gov. Jay Inslee said he has ordered immediate steps to correct the long-standing computer glitch. “Frankly, it is madden- Nimitz gets a new home ing,” Inslee said. Authorities say a July 2002 state Supreme Court ruling required the Cor- NEW HOMEPORTS rections Department to ap- ■ Navy moves carrier to Bremerton ply good-behavior credits earned in county jail to state to ease stress of Everett commute NAVAL STATION prison sentences. However, EVERETT the programming fi x ended up giving prisoners with By Ed Friedrich Everett sentencing enhancements [email protected] After seeing what it does Destroyers too much so-called good ■ USS Shoup 360-475-3792 time credit. to the crew, I thought it’d ■ USS Monson Sentencing enhance- ■ USS Gridley* BREMERTON — The Navy, be better for the crew and bet- ■ USS Sampson* ments include additional concerned about ping- ■ USS Kidd* time given for certain ponging sailors between ter for our combat effective- crimes, like those using *Coming in 2016 two bases, announced ness if we stay here.” fi rearms or those commit- Tuesday that the USS Nim- Puget ted near schools. Under itz will move its homeport Capt. John Ring, Nimitz commanding officer Sound state law, prisoners who to Naval Base Kitsap. get extra time for sentenc- Theship willjointheUSS or deployment. After 15 Ring and Vice Adm. NAVAL BASE KITSAP-BREMERTON ing enhancements cannot John C. Stennis, marking months, it would be time Mike Shoemaker, com- have that time reduced for the fi rst time two nuclear- for more maintenance in mander of Naval Air Forc- good behavior. powered aircraft carriers Bremerton. Now the ship es, initiated the change. It An analysis showed that have been homeported in will move back to Everett was approved by Secretary Aircraft carriers as many as 3,200 offenders Bremerton. in 2019. of the Navy Ray Mabus. ■ USS Nimitz ■ USS John C. Stennis were released early, and an It’s not unusual for the “After seeing what it The Nimitz, at 40 years Nimitz to be here. The does to the crew, I thought old, is the oldest active car- See GLITCH, 4A Submarines 1,100-foot beast and its it’d be better for the crew rier in the fl eet and should ■ USS Seawolf ■ USS Connecticut Seattle crew of nearly 3,000 reg- and better for our combat benefi t from being near the ularly drop down from effectiveness if we stay shipyard, Ring said. Naval Station Everett for here,” said Capt. John Ring, Naval Base Kitsap of- Bremerton Kitsap maintenance. It’s at Puget Nimitz commanding offi- fi cials welcome the move. Sound Naval Shipyard, in cer. “The crew and family fact, for 16 months of work. Practically every sailor members of USS Nimitz 5 miles Most families move back on the ship has changed have integrated well with JOURNAL MEDIA GROUP hospice and forth with the ship. addresses at least twice, Naval Base Kitsap and our Those sailors who stayed including Ring. He tried tenant commands,” said Guard vessels. The Navy Lent said that the city has in Everett because a spouse commuting after the ship Capt. Tom Zwolfer, Naval announced in September affordable housing and has a job or they don’t want arrived in January. That Base Kitsap commanding that three other destroyers that the Housing and Ur- deal to pull kids out of school lasted a couple of weeks. officer. “We look forward to — USS Gridley, USS Samp- ban Development Depart- are faced with a two-hour “My quality of life was building on our outstand- son and USS Kidd — will ment is helping fi rst-time commute each way. There terrible,” he said. ing relationship with them be added in 2016. Everett buyers get into them. Now done are about 50 of them. The three worst stress- and continuing to support can accommodate up to that Nimitz families know After the project is ors in life are death, divorce their sailors and families.” seven ships. they’ll be staying, she said, wrapped up next summer, and moving, Ring said. Naval Station Ever- “The base will be well more will buy homes in- ■ Tacoma’s the Nimitz was supposed “We’re taking the stress ett, a relatively new base utilized supporting the stead of renting. to return to Everett. Fam- out of their lives and letting that opened in the early new ships, crew members “Everything is poised for MultiCare ily members would join them focus on what needs 1990s, will be left with two and families that arrive these new families to move it but wouldn’t see much to be focused on — taking guided-missile destroy- with them,” spokeswoman into our city,” she said. buys agency of their sailors because the ship to sea and getting ers — USS Shoup and USS Kristin Ching said. they’d be away on training ready to go fi ght,” he said. Monson — and two Coast Bremerton Mayor Patty See NIMITZ, 4A By Tad Sooter [email protected] 360.475.3783 The Key Peninsula Filucy Bay SILVERDALE — Hospice of Preserve, Kitsap County will join which is MultiCare Hospice in between February. preserve grows Gig Har- Tacoma-based Multi- bor and Care Health System an- Harstine nounced its acquisition of ■ Addition The Great Peninsula Island, the fi nancially struggling Conservancy on Friday has grown Kitsap hospice agency could help joined another 21 acres to 67 Tuesday. Talks between to the 46-acre Filucy Bay acres. the two nonprofit groups Preserve. Totaling 67 acres were reported in Novem- draw salmon GREAT PENINSULA and boasting 2,000 feet of CONSERVANCY/ ber. Terms of the acquisi- CONTRIBUTED By Tristan Baurick protected shoreline, the PHOTO tion were not released. [email protected] preserve is expected to The transition should 360-792-9212 make a portion of the be “seamless” for patients, south Puget Sound more said Christi McCarren, A new nature preserve welcoming to salmon and MultiCare vice president on the Key Peninsula add- other wildlife. of retail health. ed another large stretch of wooded waterfront. See FILUCY BAY, 4A See HOSPICE, 4A

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