Slate published an excellent Explainer today on compensation for wrongful conviction, highlighting some of the embarrassingly pitiful payments around the country.
Massachusetts has no yearly rate, either, but eight of its nine exonerees as of last month received the maximum sum of $500,000—including one who had served four years and another who served 19. Life is cheaper in Illinois, which wrote a check for $138,000 to Dana Holland, who was locked up for 10 years, and gave a scant $161,000 to Michael Evans, an Illinois man who spent 27 years behind bars before being cleared of wrongdoing.
The article identifies Justice: Denied as “the magazine for the wrongly convicted.”
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