On Friday New York state parole officers OK’d the release of Kathy Boudin, the former member of the Weather Underground. She has been imprisoned for 22 years for her involvement in an armed robbery that left three dead including two police officers. Gov. George Pataki criticized the parole decision saying, “It is not a decision that should have been made.”

Boudin was considered by many to be a model inmate. She earned a master’s degree and set up a counseling program for inmates with AIDS.