Chapter 12
--Full House--
Liberty City correctional office, late 1985
Three corrections officers and some state workers stand around a table, a gigantic stack of folders and papers in front of them, in the middle of the table. They all seem to be looking at the papers, and placing them into one of two groups. "We have to get rid of more people, our prisons are way too crowded." They continue to quickly go through the folders and placing them into "Release" or "Not Release" sections. "How about this guy? Armed robbery, served ten of twelve years, decent prison record?" One of them looks up, waiting for a response. "Yeah, release him."
"Next we got here a....aggrivated assault. Guy went after someone with a baseball bat for 'cheating on his girlfriend'. He got five years in prison, and payment to the victims. Also a decent prison record." He scans the rest of the paper, nothing suprises him, and then he looks up at the group. "Release him?" "Yeah." He places the mans file on top of the rest of them in the middle of the table.
"And next we have a---Tommy Vercetti?" The officer skims the folder, reading through different things. "First degree murder...ouch." "Let him rot in prison." One of the others says. "But look here, convicted on a shaky witness account, great prison record. Never got in a physical fight with anyone. Guards report says he did some community service, they hardly had to keep an eye on him."
The main officer continues to ponder whether to let him go or not. While thinking one of the others pipes in, "Isn't this kind of....illegal?" "What is?" "Letting these convicts go without any organized process?" "Well of course it is. But we don't have room for anymore people, we have to." "Anyways, Tommy Vercetti, hmmm." After a few minutes more of thinking and reading he tosses Tommy's folder into the release pile, none of the others objecting to it.
They grab another file out of the stack.
"So....who's next?"