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Colin Flaherty discusses and reviews news coverage of the failures of criminal justice reform with a focus on Reagan Tokes, who was kidnapped, raped and murdered by a tier three sex offender who was released on parole.

[2 link and excerpts below for Reagan Tokes news coverage. Further down is a link to a prison population article mentioned by Colin in this video]https://www.10tv.com/article/reagan-t...PUBLISHED: 02/08/18 06:01 PM ESTUPDATED: 02/19/18 11:25 PM ESTThe man charged with her murder, Brian Golsby, will stand trial later this month. The jury selection process is slated to begin Feb. 23.

Golsby has pleaded not guilty to charges of rape, kidnapping and murder. If convicted, he faces the possibility of the death penalty. His defense attorneys have declined repeated recent requests for comment following his most recent court proceedings.

Golsby, a convicted sex offender, was released from prison homeless three months before Reagans death in November of 2016.

As a tier three sex offender, no halfway house would initially accept him, according to a 10 Investigates review of parole records and interviews conducted with those close to the matter.

At the request of the state, Alvis in Columbus agreed to place a GPS ankle monitor on Golsby.

But 10 Investigates found that Golsby was not closely monitored. And no geo fences inclusion or exclusion zones were assigned to Golsby a failure on the part of the state and its parole officers which violated a 2016 state corrections policy.

Golsby also faced little sanction even after failing to charge the battery on the device and being caught AWOL from the EXIT program, the community residential housing facility that later agreed to take him in.

Police say data from Golsbys GPS ankle monitor places him at a series of robbery locations in the German Village neighborhood in the weeks leading up to and the days before Reagans disappearance, as well as at Scioto Grove Metro Park where Reagans body was found February 9, 2017.

Police also say DNA found on a cigarette butt found in Tokes car matches Golsby.

As 10 Investigates first reported in November, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction may have violated its own 2016 policy by failing to assign exclusion zones that wouldve restricted Golsbys movements.

Video surveillance from the Columbus bus system shows he traveled throughout the Short North area the night Reagan disappeared.

10 Investigates also asked the Tokes about another discovery we first reported in November - that Reagan wasnt the first victim of lax monitoring.

There were others who fell victim to paroled felons under state supervision who were not watched and went on to commit additional acts of violence.

https://www.10tv.com/article/ignored-...PUBLISHED: 11/16/17 03:07 PM ESTUPDATED: 01/01/18 02:17 PM ESTState corrections officials have said the murder of Ohio State student Reagan Tokes was an outlier a rare occurrence of the parole system not working.

But a months-long investigation by 10 Investigates has found thats not true.

Through a series interviews and open records requests spanning months, 10 Investigates found documents showing the state has known about problems within its parole system for years but failed to act.

10 Investigates also found the state may have violated its own policy in some cases by failing to require exclusion and inclusion zones that wouldve restricted the movements of ex-offenders once theyre released from prison.

Reagan Tokes wasnt first victim of flawed system. Ronda Blankenship is one of those other victims.

She survived an armed robbery in December of 2013 at a home in Barberton, Ohio. She is the only survivor.

Her boyfriend, Johnny Kohler and his two children, Ashley Carpenter and David Kohler-Carpenter, were shot dead.

Ronda lost her eye and was stabbed in the face as she says she tried to intervene.

It all happened in six minutes and it seemed like it took forever. It was like a lifetime, Blankenship said. And come to find out he was wearing a GPS tracker.

After serving 12 and half years for rape and attempted murder for placing a gun inside a woman and pulling the trigger, Hendon was released from prison and assigned a GPS ankle monitor through the Oriana House in the Akron, OH area.

According to ODRC figures for October 2017, there are 453 parole officers assigned to monitor 38,015 ex-inmates who are now under state supervision.

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