3,900 prison inmates get stimulus checks

Will someone please tell me they're kidding?

Seriously, this is asleep-at-the-wheel at its finest.

Here's the story according to USA Today:

Prison inmates are generally ineligible for federal benefits. However, 2,200 of the inmates who received checks got to keep them because, under the law, they were eligible, said Mark Lassiter, a spokesman for the Social Security Administration. They were eligible because they weren't incarcerated in any of the three months before the recovery package was enacted ... "The law specified that any beneficiary eligible for a Social Security benefit during one of those months was eligible for the recovery payment," Lassiter said ... the other 1,700 checks? That was a mistake.

I don't care what the rationale is.