T he head of the state prison system told lawmakers last week there’s nothing wrong with the system used to classify the security risk of inmates even if it did result in one prisoner killing three others in April.

Ryan Thornell acknowledged that Randy Wassenaar had his custody reduced from maximum security to “close custody’’ late last year despite the fact he was serving 16 life terms for a 2004 incident where he and a fellow inmate held hostages at a state prison in 2004 for 15 days.

And he said none of that changed despite the fact that Wassenaar had boasted earlier this year of having killed his cellmate.

Thornell said that there is no hard evidence Wassenaar was involved in the death, with the official autopsy report showing the cause was inconclusive.

But the questions about th

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