A clerical error meant state 'forgot' to send this man to prison for 13 years

The Missouri Department of Corrections discovered, upon preparing to release a prisoner who had served a 13-year sentence in July 2013, that the prisoner had never been incarcerated and promptly sent him to prison.

In the intervening 13 years since his 1999 arrest, Cornealious 'Mike' Anderson III, 36, has transformed his life, becoming a master carpenter, starting his own business and marrying and having children.

In July last year, as he and his youngest daughter slept in the St Louis home he built for his family, a SWAT team outfitted in tactical gear and helmets swarmed the house, arresting the terrified father of four and delivering him to the Missouri Department of Corrections, where he's been ever since.

Why is the prosecutor evil? Did he point a gun at someone's face and demand money?

Now that you mention it, the prosecutor DOES get a paycheck from someone sticking a gun in the faces of local taxpeasants and demanding money.

Actually, I think he's evil because he's "talking his book" (a stock market term). He gets paid because of "zero tolerance" crap like this. The more common sense floating around, the more chance that he'll have less work.

Also, he has an Inspector Javert attitude (like some few FReepers). Did you think that Javert from Les Miserables was a hero?

Common sense would inform most people who don't work for the government and thereby stand to GAIN from the incarceration of Cornealious that once he's in stir for the whole sentence, the TAXPEASANTS will be paying for his maintenance, after paying for the many handlers in the Great Justice Machine Whirligig that put him there. Then, we'll probably be asked to pick up the tab for maintaining his wife and children. AND THEN, if that happens, with four children, the odds that some of them will end up being a DRAIN on society, instead of children from a stable middle-class working-family 2-parent household.

I think of these things, because I have common sense, and because I despise the thinking of the Inspector Javerts of the world.

He absolutely did know and did walk away. He knew he wasn't where he should be - in prison. He knows because he appealed his sentence repeatedly and the appeals were denied.

What sort of fool volunteers to be locked up in the animal cages the State itself can't control (nor keep track of, apparently)?

I don't know about you, but I do the right thing even when no one is watching. I wouldn't steal even if I knew I wasn't going to be caught. I don't live my life based on the odds of getting caught, as that is surely immoral and wrong. This isn't revolutionary - it's the minimum we're required to do by God.

Right and wrong are not subjective. They are objective. You did the crime, you do the time. You knew you were a convict - you spent years hoping no one would find you. Well, they did.

I'm pretty sure the Christian God got over the whole Javert thingee back in the first few years AD, if I recall my history & New Testament reading correctly.

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