Post Office scandal: The rise of computers and the decline of English justice The Post Office prosecuted its subpostmasters up and down the country with a zeal that would not have embarrassed the Inquisition Share this item with your network: By Published: 17 May 2021 If the administration of criminal justice in England and Wales was an airline, no one would fly it, such is the level of failure – but it’s the only show in town. Few really care, or think that a wrongful conviction could happen to them. Unfortunately, hundreds of subpostmasters, many of whom went to prison, thought just ...