Computer and employee errors plague the federal prison system according to a recent USA Today article. One man was held almost three years longer than he should have been held because an employee failed to apply his credit for time served in a state prison. In two other troubling cases, two inmates were held longer than necessary, one for over 500 days and the other for over 400 additional days. Keeping federal inmates in prison past their release date violates the court's sentencing, deprives individuals of their liberty, costs the prison system money for additional incarceration time and leaves the Federal Bureau of Prisons at risk for lawsuits. In response to one man's lawsuit, assistant U.S. attorney in Minneapolis implied that the inmate
