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Court documents show a louisiana man is supposed to be in prison for an attack so violent, his girlfriend needed surgery. what's more, records show isaiah spencer refused to let the victim call for help, leaving her nearly paralyzed with pain for a day. and now this man here is out free. not because of prison overcrowding, but because of an oversight. a clerical error that involved the omission of one single digit. reporter kate moore from our new orleans affiliate, wwl, has the story. >> reporter: it happens to most of us every day. we make typos on our computer key boards. but for most of us...

To follow any rules of his parole, which is why parole supervisor susan cane is trying to sound the alarm. she is speaking out against the state's wishes, saying she believes the public is not safe. she says she's speaking out for herself personally and not the department of corrections. >> all my years in law enforcement and it's been over 30 years, i for the first time feel at a total loss that i can honestly say we do our job, we do the very best job that we can, but we can't protect the community with this. we can't protect them from these sex offenders because they get out of jail the nex...

Career the only way we know how. >> did you catch leno on thursday night, greg? >> yeah, right. >> he did this one joke. check it out. >> bad news for the state of california. supreme court decision will force the state to release 46,000 convicts because of prison overcrowding. but the good news, looks like the oakland raiders will have more season ticket holders. the stadium will be packed. >> not bad. >> pretty good. >> it sounded familiar. i was wracking my brain figuring out where i heard something like it a couple days earlier like late tuesday night or wednesday morning. and then i figur...

Cleaner, this is specific to merkel. why? i'm going to presume that there's some information that led them to do this. well, maybe we need to know what that information is, as difficult as it might be to reveal. but we need to know what the hell has been going on here. >> i think it's just republicans coming out suddenly and defending these programs. at the very beginning of the snowden revelations, there was a hard, hard push from the white house that has completely vanished. and people like mike rogers is on his own now. >> dafna linzer, carl bernstein, great. thanks so much. under cover o...

Defeated. we want to get a look at your morning dish of scrambled politics. california governor jerry brown says he has a solution for a court-ordered reduction in prison overcrowding, spending 315 million bucks to rent cells in private prisons and jails. outgoing homeland security secretary janet napolitano said farewell on tuesday neat that go in her 4 1/2 years the u.s. has made great progress in reducing illegal immigration. >> our borders are better staffed and better protected and illegal crossings have dropped to 40 year lows. >> the historic washington parking garage where deep thr...