Cornealious Anderson should be pardoned. After he was convicted of armed robbery in 2000, Anderson was sentenced to 13 years prison and told to await instructions on when and where to report to prison. But those instructions never came. So Anderson spent the next 13 years turning his life around — getting married, raising three kids, learning a trade. He made no effort to conceal his identity or whereabouts. Anderson paid taxes and traffic tickets, renewed his driver's license and registered his businesses.
Not until last year did the Missouri Department of Corrections discover their clerical error. They sent a SWAT team to his house while he was getting his 3-year old breakfast. Keeping him in jail will needlessly take a father away from his family when he is already rehabilitated.