State Keeps Their Man

It wouldn't be the first time they wrongly held a guy.

Also see: Wrongly convicted man seeks compensation

Makes you question the whole darn system.

"State pays man behind bars too long $100,000; Apologizes, updates calculation process" by Maddie Hanna, Globe Correspondent | August 2, 2008

The state Department of Correction has apologized and paid a $100,000 settlement to a mentally ill man whom it mistakenly imprisoned four years too long....

That's YOUR MONEY, taxpayers -- as if you could afford to give it away due to state incompetence!

In the four years he was mistakenly imprisoned, Jones missed his mother's wake, lost contact with his teenage daughter, and alternated between a cell and the psychiatric wards of Bridgewater State Hospital.

Jones, who has been diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, now lives in a group home in Mattapan. He said he plans to use the settlement to help provide for his daughter.

"That was important," he said, "because for 10 years of her life, I wasn't there."

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Also see: They Already Have Their Man