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US accidentally sent Maryland father to Salvadorian prison, can't get him back

(www.independent.co.uk)
224 points croes | 1 comments | 01 Apr 25 09:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.254s | source
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BLKNSLVR ◴[01 Apr 25 09:49 UTC] No.43544819[source]▶
Accidents like this are required in order to demonstrate the scale of the "will" behind the power.

This should be a un-ignorable reminder of the value of due process. Better a guilty person go free than an innocent person sent to their long, slow, undignified death.

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Ntrails ◴[01 Apr 25 12:01 UTC] No.43545728[source]▶
> Better a guilty person go free than an innocent person sent to their long, slow, undignified death.

This is a scale thing though right? You'll have some false convictions if you want a justice system. Nothing is perfect, breakage inevitable.

Nobody wants to be the victim of a miscarriage of justice themselves, but everyone wants crime to be dealt with effectively. The trade offs are real and I suspect the average person has an acceptable non-zero rate in the back of their mind

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1. _DeadFred_ ◴[01 Apr 25 16:25 UTC] No.43548660[source]▶
They said there were how many tens of thousands of these gang members? And these are the first, highest priority ones they choose to ship out? If their highest priority test cases are this crappy/low priority/not actual criminals, imagine when they get past the first ten thousand.