Unlucky Nayarit State Prisoner Held Nearly 3 Years Extra Over Records Goof The Associated Press
go to original August 14, 2015

Mexico's National Human Rights Commission says one unlucky inmate was wrongly held for nearly three years extra because of a bureaucratic mix-up.

The commission says the inmate completed his sentence in 2010. But authorities at two federal penitentiaries lost track of his records and he remained in custody for an additional two years, nine months and 19 days.

The prisoner filed a human rights complaint in 2013 and was finally released from the Islas Marias prison, a Pacific island penal colony off the coast of Nayarit state.

The commission on Thursday called the inmate's treatment a "violation of human rights to liberty and personal integrity." It recommended changes to avoid similar mistakes in the future.

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