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Two men exonerated after 30 years in prison by retrocomputing enthusiasts and the Bloop Museum, by extracting data from a damaged floppy disc. (www.patreon.com)
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[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 56 points 2 years ago (13 children)

Also: 30+ years for rape? While rape is a hateful crime, usually people don't get all that prison time for that.

That's what you get when you're poor, black and homeless?

The other unjustly accused guy, who was black but not poor and not homeless got much less time and went out of prison twenty years ago

[–] prokyonid@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He wasn't imprisoned for 30+ years. He got 7 years and was out after 5. He was, in his own words, 'locked up in [his mind]' for 30+ years.

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Huh now that I re read the article I noticed it.

I misread it

[–] PopcornTin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Shh, we have a thing going here right now.

Damn the system!

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