GENESEE COUNTY, Mich. -- Flint police said they apprehended a convicted murder Tuesday after he was accidentally released from state custody.

Ronald Brackett, 32, was located in Flint after being free for nearly three days.

In 1991, Brackett was convicted when he was 14 of fatally stabbing a 13-year-old boy with a knife.

He was freed from state custody when he turned 18 but was again sent to prison for assault at age 21.

The Flint Journal reported Brackett racked up 124 serious misconduct demerits since entering prison 10 years ago.

Brackett had been ordered to serve 60 days at a psychiatric hospital near Caro in late May but somewhere along the line, police said bureaucracy broke down and he was released.

Russ Marlan, spokesman for the Michigan Department of Corrections, released this statement Tuesday:

"Ronald Brackett was being held at Woodland Correctional Facility in Washtenaw County. His prison sentence hit its end date on Saturday, June 20."

There was a court order for Brackett to be transferred to a psychiatric facility in Caro and the staff thought that a private contractor was coming to transport him to Caro.

Marlan said the contractor didn’t show up and Brackett was sitting at Woodland, waiting.

Meanwhile, control officers saw that he had reached his release date and did not realize that he was supposed to be sent to Caro.

They called transport officers to take him to his last known address, his parents' home in Flint.

Marlan is calling this incident, "miscommunication between the records office and the transport office."

He said the Department of Corrections is investigating the incident to make sure that it doesn’t happen again.

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