Democrats love to release criminals indiscriminately. California did the same thing and the media has stopped focusing on crime statistics

NH's prison population: The real story behind a failed law
Would Time magazine rather see Granite Staters raped and murdered?
EDITORIAL
Time magazine has decided that New Hampshire is incarcerating too many people, and for no good reason. Once again a national publication does a drive-by hit on New Hampshire and gets the story wrong.

Time’s Sept. 22 story was based on newly released federal data showing that New Hampshire’s prison population rose more last year than any other state’s. “Many state experts and public officials trace the rise not to a spike in crime or a recent population boom, but to the alteration of a bill initially designed to reduce New Hampshire’s prison population,” Time reported.
That bill was Senate Bill 500, which took effect in 2010. Its purpose was to relieve prison overcrowding. (Time did not seem to wonder why the state’s prison population was rising before SB 500 passed.) The bill mandated that most prisoners be released upon completing 120 percent of their minimum sentence. Most prisoners who stayed in for their full sentence were to be paroled 90 days early.
The bill was rushed through the Legislature by both Democrats and Republicans who wanted to spend less money on prisons. Democratic Gov. John Lynch assured Republicans and voters that the bill would release only non-violent offenders. It did not.
Among the very first prisoners released under the new law were sex offenders.

The law wound up releasing hundreds of inmates in late 2010 and into 2011. Time does not mention what happened next. New Hampshire’s violent crime rate exploded.
FBI data show that the state violent crime rate jumped from 167 per 100,000 people in 2010 to 188 in 2011 — a 12.5 percent increase. (The property crime rate rose too.) The huge one-year spike in violent crime shot New Hampshire’s violent crime rate to its highest recorded level, and it occurred in a year when the national crime rate fell by 3.8 percent.
Time implied that the effort to repeal SB 500 was driven entirely by politics. But why was the public upset about the law? Because it let sex offenders and career criminals free to prey upon the law-abiding public, which they then did.
New Hampshire’s violent and property crime rates have fallen since 2011 as the state has incarcerated more criminals. Funny how that works.

There absolutely is a case to be made for reducing the state’s prison population, and this newspaper has made it repeatedly. Too many people are being incarcerated when they should be receiving treatment for drug addiction or mental illness, for example. But a blanket early release policy that treats career criminals no differently than addicts and petty offenders is a great way to create more crime victims.
New Hampshire learned that lesson the hard way. It is the true story of SB 500, and one that a national audience ought to hear.