April 30, 201412 yr Do you think the federal government should require all 50 states to give compensation to exonerated inmates ? Should they be required to provide services such as job placement and college tuition ?
April 30, 201412 yr Do you think the federal government should require all 50 states to give compensation to exonerated inmates ? Should they be required to provide services such as job placement and college tuition ? Without question.
April 30, 201412 yr Author Without question. I had to do a paper on it for my masters degree. Interesting after doing research and finding out how poor these people's lives are, after they get out of jail for a crime they didn't commit.
April 30, 201412 yr I had to do a paper on it for my masters degree. Interesting after doing research and finding out how poor these people's lives are, after they get out of jail for a crime they didn't commit. Depending on how malicious the prosecution was, the state should restore them to where they would have progressed financially, AND pay punitives.
April 30, 201412 yr Author Depending on how malicious the prosecution was, the state should restore them to where they would have progressed financially, AND pay punitives. I suggested that the formula for repay should be National average salary x number of years in prison, and also services such as job placement and 4 year tuition.
April 30, 201412 yr Do you think the federal government should require all 50 states to give compensation to exonerated inmates? Should they be required to provide services such as job placement and college tuition? Absolutely. I was unaware of the fact that there are multiple states that essentially do nothing once inmates are exonerated apart from giving them an official, "Ooops....our bad" until watching the documentary . It's an eye opening movie. I think the job placement and college tuition need to be absolute MUSTS. Considering how much government funded housing there is out there, I don't think dropping $250,000 on a house is out of order either.
April 30, 201412 yr Obviously compensation needs to be granted. Not sure how to formulate it as I would have different methods depending on whether it could and should have been prevented.
April 30, 201412 yr Absolutely. Those people should be compensated, be placed in an equal or greater job than they may have had before, and I'd even go as far as saying providing some sort of housing expense for a period of time.
April 30, 201412 yr I suggested that the formula for repay should be National average salary x number of years in prison, and also services such as job placement and 4 year tuition. I have a friend whose father broke his back (many years ago) in a building collapse that occurred while he was working as a professional firefighter in Covington, KY. He wasn't paralyzed, but the injury forced him to retire from the fire department. One of the benefits offered to him by the state was that his children all received full reimbursement for tuition to any state college. I can't see how it wouldn't be MORE than reasonable to offer the same to exonerated prisoners.
April 30, 201412 yr Garnish the prosecutors' salaries to help defray these costs. I would think the defense attorneys would be partially responsible for not properly presenting the case?
April 30, 201412 yr I would think the defense attorneys would be partially responsible for not properly presenting the case? I am not sure about garnishing the prosecutor assuming he/she didn't do anything unethical to get the conviction. Holding the defense attorney accountable could have ripple affects. If you start seeing defense attorneys being held accountable, I could see other defense attorneys consider leaving that field for another legal field to avoid the risk and future attorneys avoid the field all together leading to a day where we simply do not have enough defense attorneys.
April 30, 201412 yr How could the government force someone to hire them? Let alone give them a better job than they had prior to going to jail.
April 30, 201412 yr How could the government force someone to hire them? Let alone give them a better job than they had prior to going to jail. So if the government completely ruined your life with false accusations and charges, you wouldn't expect to be made whole?
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