And you thought our criminal justice system was messed up.

David Blunkett in Britian was found innocent of an IRA bombing. He was in prison for 16 years. He was then charged 3,000 pounds for every year that he was in jail.

"The logic is that the innocent man shouldn’t have been in prison eating free porridge and sleeping for nothing under regulation grey blankets."

Wow, you get wrongfully convicted and then you are forced to pay for your incarseration.

Read it all here:

http://www.sundayherald.com/40592

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Seriously Messed up

See now if we made prisoners work for their living, he wouldn't be in this problem ;)

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