From Baltimore-Heather E. Cook, the former Episcopal bishop serving a prison sentence for fatally striking a bicyclist with her car while drunk in 2014 in Baltimore, has applied for a work release program.
Cook’s application is under review, according to a prisons spokesman and a letter sent to the victim’s family and shared with The Baltimore Sun.
The prison system’s Victim Service Unit said in the July 19 letter to the family of Thomas Palermo that placement of Cook “is to begin within the next several weeks.”
But Gerard Shields, a spokesman for the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, said in an email that “there is no set time on when she would be approved or begin working” and he does not know why the letter gave that time frame.
Shields said the department’s review “is not a quick process” and that Cook is first undergoing a medical examination “to determine if she can work.”
Alisa Rock, a sister of Palermo’s wife, said in an email to The Sun that she opposes Cook’s application for work release. She said that by applying, Cook “once again attempts to limit the consequences of her actions.”
More here-
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-heather-cook-work-release-20180726-story.html
and here-
http://mynorthwest.com/1062610/former-bishop-who-killed-cyclist-applies-for-work-release/
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