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Published on September 4, 2007

The process is part of the ministry's project to free inmates or convicted prisoners of crimes they did not commit.

A total of 7,206 prisoners - 3,943 of whom are serving jail terms after final Supreme Court verdicts - have complained that they were innocent of the crimes they were jailed for.  Charnchai acknowledged the existence of several court verdicts wrongly implicating convicts because of their voluntary confessions to serve the terms for other people, or their lack of financial resources to find themselves good enough lawyers.

The five unidentified prisoners have been screened from a shortlist of 561 prisoners from 137 prisons nationwide.

The 556 have been categorised for the A List, which means they can produce documentary evidence to prove their innocence after imprisonment.

The remaining prisoners are divided into the B List (those with convincing

evidence against their sentence), the C List (those implicated and sentenced without a fair and proper trial) and the D List (those who actually committed a crime but who had their post-trial rights limited).

The Nation