Alleged criminals released from jail due to paperwork mishaps
Jeffrey Bryant should have been in a Baltimore jail on the night he came to the door of Ronald Reives' apartment. Instead, police say, Bryant and two other men attacked Reives — one of them stabbing him in the back and puncturing his lung.
Because of a mistake at the Baltimore Central Booking and Intake Facility, Bryant had been released a week before the stabbing.
"It's really surprising to me," Reives, 28, said Friday after being told that Bryant, an old neighborhood acquaintance, was supposed to have been in custody.
Bryant was one of four people mistakenly set free from the Baltimore booking facility and jail this summer — a total that exceeds the count from recent years and has the state corrections department scrambling to defend its record at one of the nation's busiest detention complexes.
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