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Thursday, May 02, 2002
What's a few months -- or years -- between friends?The Washington D.C. Department of Corrections apparently flips a coin to decide who to keep in jail.A homeless man was mistakenly imprisoned at the D.C. jail and an adjacent correctional treatment facility for five months because Department of Corrections workers failed to update computer records to indicate that a court had ordered his release within two days of his arrest.But they don't always keep people in jail wrongfully; sometimes they let them out wrongfully: Another recent case of records mismanagement involved Michael D. Hamilton, 42, a convicted bank robber who is being held at the jail on a one- to three-year sentence for parole violation after serving more than 15 years in the Virginia prison system. On March 2, a Saturday, he was erroneously released from jail.Hey, isn't that how Yasser Arafat runs his prisons?
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