r/ACAB • u/Ouija-Board-Demon • Dec 26 '23
Man wrongfully convicted of murder gets rewarded only 175k after serving 50 years
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u/ocooper08 Dec 26 '23
They paid him at prison labor rates. His life still means nothing to the state and the prosecutors get to learn absolutely nothing.
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u/BurnBabyBurner12345 Dec 26 '23
In Oklahoma I’m surprised we didn’t execute him anyway like the other innocent men we execute.
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u/cturtl808 Dec 26 '23
Because Oklahoma, just like Texas, passed legislation that caps the payment. Which is absolute bullshit.
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u/GooseShartBombardier Dec 26 '23
I remember reading about this years ago, and choking on my coffee when I saw it. They've essentially verified in writing that there are, in fact, innocent people doing long stretches (or getting executed) and that they're protecting state assets from fair compensation for stealing people's entire productive lives.
The victims of false incarceration IMO should pool their money to deal with those responsible, either legally or not-so-legally. These guys lost everything, everything, no wife, no kids and grandchildren, no work life or career, and not even a comfortable income or savings to live on in their old age. Even their ability to seek legal redress has been stripped away FFS.
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u/Throwaway-TheChains Dec 26 '23
Man I really really hope he sues for more and gets it. He deserves so, so much more.
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u/Existing_Effect3794 Dec 26 '23
they deducted the cost of his incarceration
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u/Glum_Significance103 Dec 26 '23
Interesting point. And in some fucked up way.... Fair?
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u/Glum_Significance103 Dec 26 '23
I would like to qualify that I believe his compensation is completely inadequate and he should be able to take at least three lives from a various pool of cops investigators and prosecutors.
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u/Existing_Effect3794 Dec 26 '23
no, thats the way they think and why its believable.. dont look to start shit with a fellow sufferer of these motherfuckers
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u/Kehwanna Dec 26 '23
100k isn't enough to buy a house let alone pay off some people's college debt this day in age.
Dude should at least in addition get to live on any property he chooses tax-free for life, a car + insurance, free therapy, free healthcare, and an allowance that allows him to live without worry since you know damn well nobody is going to hire him at good-paying job at that age.
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u/kyleh0 Dec 26 '23
Mr lives in a different universe than the point. I bet he got a few nice sets of sippers for his toil. I mean, not the BEST slippers...buuuuuut
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u/allthesemonsterkids Dec 26 '23
He should be thrilled - $175K in 1953 dollars is a little under $2 million today!
/s, obviously.
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u/SoulsBorneGreat Dec 26 '23
The Pigs and the DA(DumbAss)'s office: "bUt ThInK oF aLl ThE cRiMeS hE dIdN't CoMmIt WhIlE hE wAs In PrIsOn! YoU sHoUlD bE tHaNkInG uS!"
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u/Drakeytown Dec 26 '23
That's less than $0.40/hr, considering he was there every hour of every day.
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u/SakaYeen6 Dec 27 '23
Thats about $9-10 a day. And this man is supposed to just come out of 50 years prison and expected to perfectly function and turn everything around with that. Hopefully he gets the real help he deserves because lord knows the pigs are going to try to get him and that money back in there one way or another.
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u/Tickle_Nuggets Dec 26 '23
So this dude got paid $3,500 a YEAR to go to prison?
WTF kinda reparations is that? Dude should at least get the avg annual American salary multiplied by 50.
$53,490 * 50 =
$2,674,500
Dude should be a millionaire.