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Hawaii Ex-prisoner Awarded $83,000 for Being Held 83 Days Past Release Date
Loaded on Nov. 15, 2011
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2011, page 19
Former Hawaii prisoner Wade T. Itagaki, who was held at the Oahu Community Correctional Center in Honolulu for 83 days after his sentence expired on Sept. 5, 2006, was awarded $83,000 by a federal jury in February 2011. When prison officials realized their mistake, Itagaki, a homeless veteran, was quickly ...
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