The Mistakes of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation deserves to shoulder some of the blame. They erroneously classified Dorito as needing only low-level supervision, and it can be reasonably argued that this was the mother of all their mistakes. In 2006, one of Philip Dorito's neighbors called 911 to inform them that children seem to be living in tents in the backyard, and that Dorito was acting psychotic. A deputy sheriff then drove out to the property and conversed with Dorito for over 30 minutes, telling him that there would be a code violation of people who were living outside on the property. At one point, an inspector detailed an instance in which a parole agent encountered a 12-year