I study this stuff. What's even crazier is that exonerees often get LESS transitional support (e.g., housing assistance, job training) than parolees do, precisely because they didn't commit a crime -- but then society still discriminates against exonerees as if they were offenders. It's a massive catch-22.
It's also crazy how much compensation laws vary between states. Losing years of your life is "worth" much more in some places than others. And in some states, if you're coerced to confess to a crime you didn't commit, you become ineligible for compensation because the state effectively blames you for your own wrongful conviction.
We're working to fix this, one state at a time -- and you'd think it's a common sense reform, but you'd be surprised (or maybe not...).
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I study this stuff. What's even crazier is that exonerees often get LESS transitional support (e.g., housing assistance, job training) than parolees do, precisely because they didn't commit a crime -- but then society still discriminates against exonerees as if they were offenders. It's a massive catch-22.
It's also crazy how much compensation laws vary between states. Losing years of your life is "worth" much more in some places than others. And in some states, if you're coerced to confess to a crime you didn't commit, you become ineligible for compensation because the state effectively blames you for your own wrongful conviction.
We're working to fix this, one state at a time -- and you'd think it's a common sense reform, but you'd be surprised (or maybe not...).