Texas DNA exonerees find prosperity after prison

Submitted by Matt on Fri, 2009-09-04 15:03

Story here. Excerpt:

'He and other exonerees in Texas, which leads the nation in freeing the wrongly convicted, soon will become instant millionaires under a new state law that took effect this week.

Exonerees will get $80,000 for each year they spent behind bars. The compensation also includes lifetime annuity payments that for most of the wrongly convicted are worth between $40,000 and $50,000 a year — making it by far the nation's most generous package.
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His payday for his imprisonment — a time he described as "a nightmare," "hell" and "slavery" — should come by mid-November after the state's 45-day processing period.

Exonerees also receive an array of social services, including job training, tuition credits and access to medical and dental treatment. Though 27 other states have some form of compensation law for the wrongly convicted, none comes close to offering the social services and money Texas provides.

The annuity payments are especially popular among exonerees, who acknowledge their lack of experience in managing personal finances. A social worker who meets with the exonerees is setting them up with financial advisers and has led discussions alerting them to swindlers.'

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You must be kidding. Texas??? Is this one of those 'fake' articles, or perhaps it was borrowed from the Onion by some dumbo who thought it was true?
-ax

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Submitted by axolotl on Sat, 2009-09-05 01:09

is this that same texas along the southern border

that executes more men than every other state.

what, killers remorse?
texas is #1, in putting men to death.

have some sane Men finally gained some sort of control again?

sorry, habit. still waiting for the other shoe to fall.

didn't i see where texas was the state w/ the highest number
of freed prisoners due to the Innocence Project?
so logically, they have also put to death the most innocent men.

guy freed getting $1.8 mil on front page of a.o.l.
says he is going to let his girl friend furnish his new home.
he won't have it ($$) long.

91% who took the attach. survey said this was a good thing.
and, imho waaaaaaay long overdue.

good news in these times of warped feminist/mangina law.
spend wisely my friends. hard times ahead for sure.

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Submitted by daveinga on Sat, 2009-09-05 14:44