What is the Post Office scandal?
www.bbc.co.uk
The government says it is looking at possibilities to clear the names of hundreds of sub-postmasters who were wrongly convicted in the Post Office Horizon scandal.
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Original Title: TIL between 1999 and 2015, 736 UK Post Office workers were wrongly convicted for stealing money due to faulty accounting software. Workers were forced to pay back nonexistent losses with their own money and some were even sent to jail for a crime they did not commit.