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The Rocky Mountain News reports that a 24-year-old Colorado woman named Allysan Isaac served 90 days in jail and nearly a year in a work release program for a crime that does not exist:

"You were incarcerated for a case that was not a crime," said Mesa County District Judge Brian Flynn, who presided over the case.

Flynn, the prosecutor and Isaac's defense attorney were unaware last year that the offense she was charged with was not a violation of the law.

No one had noticed that a prescription drug found in Isaac's possession, an anti-anxiety medication called Buspirone [a.k.a. BuSpar], is not a controlled substance.

Whoops. I'm not sure which is more ridiculous: the mistake or the idea that it would have been perfectly OK to arrest Isaac and lock her up if the drug in her pocket did happen to appear on one of the government's arbitrary lists.

[Thanks to Jack Farrar for the link.]