The Department of Corrections is reversing course following a TMJ4 investigation.
We introduced you to Dorothy Hacket last week . She’s the mother of a Milwaukee man who was killed by a 14-year-old fleeing police after committing an armed robbery.
TMJ4 Hacket was furious after learning the Department of Corrections planned to release the teen back into the community just nine months after he was sentenced in juvenile court.
“If it would have been his first offense, I would have said, ‘OK, I can see giving him a break, but this was his third offense,” Hacket said. “He had been given a couple of breaks. And you can’t tell me that he was rehabilitated in 9 months.”
Just days after that story aired, Hacket was alerted by the D.O.C. saying the teen’s release had been placed on hold.
She received a letter from the state saying the teen, who was scheduled to be released back into the Milwaukee community this week, has been placed on hold pending an administrative review.
Hacket “Our state needs to wake up,” Hacket said . “We need to change something.”