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What kind of compensation do these people typically get? I can't imagine what compensation would be enough for losing 35 years of your life, especially the year
by woojoo666 4y ago
What kind of compensation do these people typically get? I can't imagine what compensation would be enough for losing 35 years of your life, especially the years 18-53. There goes almost all dreams of becoming famous, meeting your soulmate, starting a family, etc.
- mlindner 4y agoNone by default AFAIK. They can sometimes start a civil lawsuit against the state.
- caminante 4y agoHere's info for wrongful incarceration compensation at the federal and state level [0]. [0] https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Documents/Key-Provisions-in-Wrongful-Conviction-Compensation-Laws.pdf https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Documents/Key-...
- lucb1e 4y agoTakeaway from that link: around 50k/year in the USA, more or less depending on the region, and you have to go to another court (or similar) to get it, depending on the region. Additionally, in some regions you might get "tuition assistance", "medical expenses" (national healthcare for the rest of your life I think this might mean?), "job search assistance", and other things that you expect to get in a prosperous country without having to have been wrongfully convicted, and these benefits aren't even universal across the USA after a wrongful conviction. But the 50k×35=1.75 million USD should make for a nice retirement fund regardless of anything else.
- hammock 4y agoMany municipalities have an online database of all the wrongful death settlements, etc that they (aka the taxpayer, split with e.g. the police pension fund) have paid or are current paying. Once out of curiosity I googled the name of the officer who simply “took” my online stolen property report, and found out both they and their partner had multimillion dollar judgments against them