Last July, when Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters, Haley and Michaela, were raped, bound, set afire, and thus murdered in their home in Cheshire and the crime was immediately attributed to a couple of career criminals on parole, most people in Connecticut had the same question:

How could two men with such long criminal records – one with 21 felony convictions, the other with 17 – be out of prison?

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