The man accused in the brutal rape of a Greenwood woman has been found guilty on eight counts.
Shawn Corbally was on trial for attacking a woman at knifepoint in her apartment with her young children close by.
The attack happened in July shortly after Corbally had been released early after serving nearly 12 years in prison for rape.
Outrage over his release led to changes in the way sex offenders are monitored in Indianapolis.
Shawn Corbally was sentenced to 25 years in prison for brutally beating and raping an Indianapolis woman in 2000.
“He threw me out of the car naked and I had to run and knock on a stranger’s door for help,” the victim told Eyewitness News.
Prison records show he was cited 23 separate times for breaking prison rules. Among the violations: refusing a drug or alcohol test, possessing intoxicants, use of a dangerous weapon, three separate batteries, and conduct listed as disorderly, disruptive and rowdy.
IDOC took away some of Corbally’s earned good time credit as a result of the violations.
But most of the deprived credits were later restored – despite a continued pattern of poor conduct – and Corbally received more than eleven years of good time credit that helped him cut a 25-year sentence to less than twelve.
He was released from prison in February 2012. Within a few months, police say the convicted rapist struck again.
“Corbally lost 765 days of credit time, of which only 441 days was restored,” wrote IDOC chief communications officer Douglas Garrison, pointing out that prison officials did take disciplinary against Corbally which resulted in a delayed released date. “Corbally spent nearly 15 months LONGER in prison than he would have if he had behaved better.”
But why IDOC granted Corbally more than 4,000 days of good time credit (90% of the time he was eligible to receive) despite batteries, dangerous weapons, and rowdy behavior behind bars, is a mystery to some state lawmakers.
Source: WTHR13
