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Under New State Law Wrongfully Convicted in Texas Will Get 80K Per Jail Year

By David Badertscher, PLL

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According to an Associated Press report, exonerees in Texas will get $80,000 for each year they spent behind bars. under a new state law that took effect this week The compensation also includes lifetime annuity payments that for most of the wrongly convicted are worth between $40,000 and $50,000 a year. Exonerees also receive an array of social services, including job training, tuition credits and access to medical and dental treatment - making it by far the nation's most generous package. Texas leads the nation in freeing the wrongly convicted. SEE: Associated Press

Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on September 04, 2009 (boomark / email).

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