State pays man behind bars too long $100,000

Apologizes, updates calculation process

Rommel Jones was in prison four years too long.

By Maddie Hanna

Globe Correspondent / August 2, 2008

E-mail|
Reprints|

Text size – +

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 - an error that prompted the department to update its system of sentence calculation. (Full article: 605 words)