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| Subject: Your serf tags please: Nearly 1,500 wrongfully incarcerated in L.A. due to ID errors Sun Dec 25, 2011 7:19 pm | |
| Wrongful incarcerations totaled 1,480 in the last five years, a Times inquiry finds.
Jose Ventura of Montclair was jailed for several days on a warrant meant for someone else
undreds of people have been wrongly imprisoned inside the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department jails in recent years, with some spending weeks behind bars before authorities realized those arrested were mistaken for wanted criminals, a Times investigation has found.
The wrongful incarcerations occurred more than 1,480 times in the last five years. They were the result of a variety of factors, including officials' overlooking fingerprint evidence and working off incomplete records.
The errors are so common that in some years people were jailed because of mistaken identity an average of once a day.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-wrong-id-20111225,0,7157038.story?track=lat-pick _________________ Anarcho-Capitalist, AnCaps Forum, Ancapolis, OZschwitz Contraband “The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.”-- Max Stirner "Remember: Evil exists because good men don't kill the government officials committing it." -- Kurt Hofmann |
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