{"id":1091,"date":"2011-12-25T03:26:54","date_gmt":"2011-12-25T08:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1091"},"modified":"2011-12-25T03:26:54","modified_gmt":"2011-12-25T08:26:54","slug":"id-errors-put-hundreds-in-l-a-county-jails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/12\/id-errors-put-hundreds-in-l-a-county-jails\/","title":{"rendered":"ID errors put hundreds in L.A. County jails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of people have been wrongly imprisoned inside the Los Angeles County Sheriff&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217; overlooking fingerprint evidence and working off incomplete records.<\/p>\n<p>The errors are so common that in some years people were jailed because of mistaken identity an average of once a day.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-wrong-id-20111225,0,7157038.story\">ID errors put hundreds in L.A. County jails &#8211; latimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of people have been wrongly imprisoned inside the Los Angeles County Sheriff&#8217;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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,22],"tags":[357,701,704,702,703],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1092,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions\/1092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}