The lawyer for the victim of a child sex abuser who was released from prison nearly four years early on Friday called on the Oregon Department of Corrections to return the man to prison.

Attorney Jose Cienfuegos referred to the release of Joaquin Cowart, 47, as “unlawful” and accused the Corrections Department of misinterpreting an Oregon Supreme Court ruling over the summer that dealt with the sometimes arcane calculus of prison sentencing.

In a letter to Corrections Director Michael Reese, Cienfuegos asked the department to stop any additional early releases and return to custody people who have already been released under the agency’s revised calculations.

Cienfuegos’s client is a 29-year-old Jackson County woman who was a minor at the time Cowart abused her. The Oregonian/Oregon

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