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Mark Johnson - Staff Writer Published: Thu, Jan. 22, 2009 12:30AM
Modified Thu, Jan. 22, 2009 05:01AM
Nine days before Christmas, state prison officials released Jeffery Cooke from McCain Correctional Hospital and sent him home to Currituck County to die.
Cooke, a 41-year-old repeat drunken driver suffering from liver disease, was the first inmate released under a new state program that grants early parole to terminally ill, disabled and geriatric prisoners who qualify.
North Carolina is among a majority of states that release inmates with high medical costs, but who officials believe pose no threat outside prison. http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1377400.html
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