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Could Compensation for Texas Inmates Wrongly Accused of a Crime Ever Be Too Much?
KTBB's Question of the Day for Thursday, May 28th, 2009
May 28, 2009 - 7:30am
Tyler—
KETK Viewers and KTBB Listeners respond to Governor Perry's signing of a new law giving wrongly convicted inmates more money.
I think the solution is so easy! First, absolutely pay the wrongfully convicted and make the pay hurt. In other words, if we tap the budget where the conviction originated and if we make it substantial, maybe prosecutors and judges won't be so quick to slam the door shut.
Second, put judicial review in place and use it. What I mean to say is that an independent judge should be required to review every single case where a person is sentenced to prison. Costly in terms of time? Sure it is! Better to spend the time up front than spending the money on the backend.
Joey
1 month agoNo, $80,000 is never going to be enough. You can't put a price on time lost while wasting your life away in prison because of a wrong ocnviction. This 23 year old man is not the only person who has lost family members because of it. You can't bring a person back to life by giving somebody some money. You can't turn back time by giving somebody money. And if they die in prison, who does the money go to? What if they are a minor? Would the money go to the parents, or would the minor be allowed to claim this money?
Also, all this will do is make people suspected of a crime want to take blame so that if it "turns our" that they are wrongly convicted, they can get that $80,000 for each year spent in jail. Money is the root of all evil, and it makes people do stupid things.
Amber
10 months agoYour quote is incorrect Amber - The "LOVE" of money is the root of all evil.
David
10 months agoProsecute those who gave false identification evidence. Give those falsely convicted $100,000 a year for the rest of their lives.
David Jenkinson
11 months agoYes they should get paid. I say 80,000 for every year spent in prison. They have missed out on so many memories.
Lynda57
10 months agoDon't know where it will come from, but I don't know how any amount could ever be enough. Ruining someone's life and making them stay in an awful place when they did nothing wrong - there's just nothing you can do to give them back that lost time.
Carmen
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