Friday, former Massachusetts chemist Annie Dookhan pleaded guilty to all 27 counts of falsifying nearly 40,000 criminal drug cases, effectively upending the Massachusetts criminal justice system. Dookhan admitted to filing false test results, mixing drug samples together, and lying under oath about her job qualifications. She claimed that she committed her crimes to boost her job performance and was sentenced on Friday to three to five years in prison, plus probation. [More]She's not the only one who should be going to prison.
The lack of oversight and audit controls that allow someone to get away with this are, at a minimum, acts of criminal negligence and deliberate indifference.
That's the thing about incentives: If there's something in it for them, that's what they work for. If there's nothing in it for them, in this case the bloated bureaucratic parasites who administer the system the wretched and evil Dookhan exploited, they could not care less. Hell, I don't buy that they didn't know and that their incentive wasn't to let innocents have their lives destroyed as long as "management" kept looking good.
I also can't help but wonder if George Papachristos tweeted any pictures to her.
[Via Michael G]
Admission of filing false test results in 40,000 criminal drug cases = three to five years in prison?
ReplyDeleteThat's a real Only Ones sentence.