{"id":10416,"date":"2023-04-10T17:39:40","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T17:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10416"},"modified":"2023-04-10T17:39:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T17:39:40","slug":"an-oregon-man-was-wrongly-imprisoned-for-almost-a-year-because-of-an-error-in-a-dmv-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=10416","title":{"rendered":"An Oregon Man Was Wrongly Imprisoned for Almost a Year Because of an Error in a DMV Database"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Nicholas Chappelle spent almost a year in an Oregon prison after he was wrongfully convicted of driving with a suspended license. The reason for his incarceration? A shoddy DMV database. And the worst part is he&#8217;s not alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While it&#8217;s unclear just how many Oregonians have been wrongfully arrested or convicted due to errors in the database, at least 3,000 licenses have been mislabeled as indefinitely suspended. At least five wrongful arrests or convictions have been identified.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"X2AIpkKBXB\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/03\/17\/an-oregon-man-was-wrongly-imprisoned-for-almost-a-year-because-of-an-error-in-a-dmv-database\/\">An Oregon Man Was Wrongly Imprisoned for Almost a Year Because of an Error in a DMV Database<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;An Oregon Man Was Wrongly Imprisoned for Almost a Year Because of an Error in a DMV Database&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/03\/17\/an-oregon-man-was-wrongly-imprisoned-for-almost-a-year-because-of-an-error-in-a-dmv-database\/embed\/#?secret=xla1JXbzmJ#?secret=X2AIpkKBXB\" data-secret=\"X2AIpkKBXB\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Nicholas Chappelle spent almost a year in an Oregon prison after he was wrongfully convicted of driving with a suspended license. The reason for his incarceration? A shoddy DMV database. And the worst part is he&#8217;s not alone.<br \/>\nWhile it&#8217;s unclear just how many Oregonians have been wrongfully arrested or convicted due to errors in the database, at least 3,000 licenses have been mislabeled as indefinitely suspended. At least five wrongful arrests or convictions have been identified.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[280,505,284],"class_list":["post-10416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-criminal-justice","tag-oregon","tag-prison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10417,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10416\/revisions\/10417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}