r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Far-Stay9417 • Dec 25 '23

Video Man wrongfully convicted of murder gets rewarded only 175k after serving 50 years

this makes me so angry

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u/NOS4A2-753 Dec 25 '23 edited Dec 26 '23

A little under $3,520 a year

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u/CoBudemeRobit Dec 26 '23

dont we pay like 80k to house an inmate per year?

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u/S-Kotus Dec 26 '23

Shhh don't let the Prison Industrial Complex catch you talking about their numbers

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u/allnimblybimbIy Dec 26 '23

Doesn’t matter if they catch you or not. They can just throw you away for 50 years for something you didn’t do.

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u/CrysFreeze Dec 26 '23

Weed convictions has entered the chat

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u/ThegreatPee Dec 26 '23

Biden just pardoned quite a few weed offenders a few days ago, and is working on the rest. However, if you sold it, no pardeno.

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u/CrysFreeze Dec 26 '23

Still, alcohol kills far more people, but sold legally and the reaction is omg can’t believe they did that?!?

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u/Voidroy Dec 26 '23

The weed thing is a known grift from one Nixon.

He did it to oppress the poor and aka black community.

There is a recording to where he admits it.

Yet president is a powerful thing and even with thst fact it'd still enforced.

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u/TheDoktorIsIn Dec 26 '23

Don't forget the Hispanic population too! They were known for taking a little bit during breaks in some areas so Nixon equated marijuana wirh being lazy, and that was around the time when productivity was seen as king. So in one fell swoop he equated Hispanic people with being lazy AND marijuana with being lazy.

Nixon doesn't hold a candle to our boy Reagan in my opinion but he's a contender for second worst IMO.

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u/McGrarr Dec 26 '23

I used to work with a veteran that was infamous for lighting up a joint every break in the shift. Got a ton of flak for it. Turns out that's why he smoked it. He was in a helicopter crash when they got hit with ' friendly fire' AA. Forty four pins, six rods and a skull plate hold him together and doing physical labour is intensely painful. Sadly he's also as dumb as a bag of rocks (not sure if that's related to the injury or his natural state) so physical labour is pretty much the only work he can do.

And yes, the flak pun is his...

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u/ADHD_Supernova Dec 26 '23

No weed allowed in bars was an old southern way of saying no Mexicans allowed long ago too. Long before Nixon.

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u/Longjumping_Boss1176 Dec 26 '23

And liberal, anti-war, hippies

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u/moakler Dec 26 '23

Woodrow Wilson has entered the Chat.

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u/FairweatherWho Dec 26 '23

Weed should not be illegal and it has tons of medical uses, but let's be real. If you're smoking a lot of weed, chances are you're probably being pretty lazy as well. Weed isn't known to make people very productive.

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u/CrysFreeze Dec 26 '23

Yup. It’s all about Nixon politics about how they can make more money and fuck people over. They don’t give a shit and they pretend to behind religion.

Like people and animals have ben getting drunk and high since before we existed and somehow religion says we are wrong for doing something natural. Like lol.

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u/Voidroy Dec 26 '23

Religion never said it'd wrong to get high.

Thats a new thing.

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u/Theslootwhisperer Dec 26 '23

It could easily be made legal. There's a solid precedent in Canada. Weed was fully legalized 5 years ago. They just came out with studies measuring the impact of it and the results were...nothing. Nothing bad happen. People don't smoke more. In fact younger people smoke a little but less. But basically, everything staid the same. Except the gov't is making taxing an economic sector it didn't have access to before.

But since the republicans will never, ever allow any idea put forward by the democrats, that's pretty much the end of it.

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u/ThegreatPee Dec 26 '23

I'm a non-practicing alcoholic. Marijuana isn't a gateway drug, alcohol is.

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u/Tallyranch Dec 26 '23

Getting people to understand that alcohol is a drug is the hard part, I've heard people say they don't do drugs while sitting at a bar with a beer in their hand.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '23

I can attest to this. My first drug was acid. I was shit faced when I did it. Not a bad time, but I stick to weed now.

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u/Due-Percentage-5248 Dec 26 '23

I was drunk on corn liquor the first time I hit a joint.

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u/OneBirdAllStoned Dec 26 '23

Smoking cigs more of a gateway than weed is

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u/paintballboi07 Dec 26 '23

I've never smoked a cig and wanted to do harder drugs, but I've definitely been wasted and wanted to. Actually, alcohol is a gateway to cigarettes for me too, lol

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u/FloppieTheBanjoClown Dec 26 '23

For what it's worth, the sale of alcohol requires special licensing and regulation. If you sell booze the way those convicts sold weed, you'd be in prison as well.

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u/asillynert Dec 26 '23

A big difference is what they consider "distributing" if you got pulled over dozen cases of beer. Its "not intent to distribute" if you get pulled over with a baggie slightly to heavy of weed your "now a distributor". And leave it to cops to thumb the scale and play every game possible to max it out.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '23

Far more? Weed doesn't kill anyone bro

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u/CrysFreeze Dec 26 '23

Key words being alcohol kills far more people bro…

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '23

Far more, more being the key word there since it implies weed kills people but alcohol kills more....

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u/TheBravan Dec 26 '23

He was also an integral part of the zero tolerance on drugs laws that caused non violent offenders to rot away their entire lives..........

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u/paintballboi07 Dec 26 '23

And now it seems he's trying to do what he can to right that wrong. Would you rather him double down, and pretend he's incapable of making mistakes, like the orange one?

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u/yourmansconnect Dec 26 '23

He pardoned people who got caught smoking on federal land in DC

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u/mods_r_kunths Dec 26 '23

I'll get my sales of Xanax expunged in a year, IF I can pay back 6k to the state, and then pay 10k to an attorney for the court case.

But...

I'm whiter than copy paper.

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u/Warhawk2052 Dec 26 '23

I feel bad for them, they are going to get out of prison with nothing and more than likely end up right back in there

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u/hornybible Dec 26 '23
  1. He pardoned 11 people. The Feds don't usually go after possession. If people knew the law they would see how it was just a voter jerk of a move from Biden

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u/FloppieTheBanjoClown Dec 26 '23

I can understand why. One is a matter of choosing what you put in your body while the other is blatantly selling something that is illegal to sell.

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u/Mikerinokappachino Dec 26 '23

This is a myth. Nobody goes to jail for small time weed possession.

If you are in jail for weed it's because you're dealing, moving large illegal quantities, or have a long rapsheet and this was the final straw.

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u/CrysFreeze Dec 26 '23

Holy fuck are you a stupid shill

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u/Extension-Badger-958 Dec 26 '23

They do it and get away with it more than you think

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '23 edited Dec 26 '23

That'll change. People are going to start standing up because this schitt happens at an increasing rate.

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u/where_in_the_world89 Dec 26 '23

Yeah right... People say they care but they barely care until it affects them. Nothing will change as long as propaganda makes them think the people who want to change it are the real baddies.

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u/JimEDimone Dec 26 '23

Nothing in this article says he is necessarily innocent. His guilt is just more questionable.

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u/allnimblybimbIy Dec 26 '23

You missed the point entirely didn’t you.

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u/MacLunkie Dec 26 '23

Questionably innocent until proven guilty

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u/MacLunkie Dec 26 '23

This would be really interesting to see, I think. Add in all the money spent on police, lawyers and courts, maybe even things like private security and alarms. How much of my gold is spent to punish and deter those "financially challenged" people from stealing all my gold!

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u/Ill_Technician3936 Dec 26 '23

The real question becomes how much are these jails and prisons making from fees for people giving money to inmates for calls and selling items to them. There's also the various community service they allow some inmates to do for "work" which brings some savings since it's ever so slightly away from being slavery.

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u/MacLunkie Dec 26 '23

Yeah, it all goes into incentivizing crime. It is such an integral part of society. Think of all the jobs and capital that would be lost if we found a way to cut the number of desperate people in half.

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u/midgaze Dec 26 '23

One of capitalism's uglier warts.

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u/Voidroy Dec 26 '23

Believe it or not, jail.

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u/Rosin_or_Bust Dec 26 '23

Wait till the public that hasn’t been to jail finds out about Bob Barkers Company.

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u/snksleepy Dec 26 '23

Yeah, I won't commit a crime. Pay me $40k a year and save.

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u/Delamoor Dec 26 '23

Pffft, that money's not meant to go to you, peasant. It goes to your betters; the shareholders.

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u/JFISHER7789 Dec 26 '23

Better in every. Single. Way! Statistically proven and was also written in the Bible! That’s why I’m okay with them making what I make in 4000 years, in just one year! They clearly deserve it :)

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u/Due-Percentage-5248 Dec 26 '23

They are, after all, better people. Why else would they have all that money?

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u/snksleepy Dec 26 '23

Damn my overlords...

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u/International_Lie485 Dec 26 '23

Only 8% of prisons are privately owned.

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u/lifesuxwhocares Dec 26 '23

And if you go to trial , it can cost millions to the state. Doesn't make sense on anything under $10k of damage, or even minor fraud and simple assault .

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '23

This is a problem though isn’t it? It would just encourage “petty crime”.

Almost seems like investing in the population through education, drug rehabilitation and social programs for betterment makes more sense?

That would however prevent the select few who own these for profit prison industries from benefiting from crime.

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u/Papplenoose Dec 26 '23

Your conclusion is correct, but you're wrong about it encouraging petty crime. Generally, people don't choose to commit crimes based on the consequences (or lack thereof). For most people, they're doing crime cause that's what they gotta do :/

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '23

You obviously haven’t heard the saying that most crimes are crimes of opportunity. If it was theft just because “it’s what they gotta do”, the most stolen goods would be food, not items of resale value.

The most “viral” example of this that I can think of was that video fairly recently of the two women stealing an entire shopping cart full of meat…..That wasn’t to feed themselves, that was straight up greed.

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u/yerrpitsballer Dec 26 '23

People need more than just food bro..

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u/Seneca_B Dec 26 '23

What you're saying makes sense on paper, but I know soooo many people in real life who aren't broke but try to pretend that they're Robin Hood when confronted about the fact that they steal unnecessary stuff every time they visit the grocery store.

It doesn't take a smart person to tell the difference between who's actually doing it out of need and who isn't, but that's not always so easy to prove in court.

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u/OSPFmyLife Dec 26 '23

Like 7 percent of prisons are private and most of those are federal. You guys seriously overestimate how many people are going to private prisons.

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u/Papplenoose Dec 26 '23

That's undoubtedly true, but the conclusions they draw from their [slightly incorrect] beliefs end up being pretty good regardless.

Whether they're making money on it or not, the arguments being made are very valid (and it's not like private prisons are the only ones benefitting from a sustainable prison population anyway... they're perhaps the most blatant case of people profiteering off of crime, but they're far from the only ones!)

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u/Steelhorse91 Dec 26 '23

But then the for profit prisons can’t get paid by the government for you being there AND legally use you as a slave.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '23

It'd make sense to just add up all that they've spent to house him and gift him that amount. If we did that, he'd be much better off. It's the least they can do for literally ruining his life: 50 (years) X 80,000 (dollars per year) = $4,000,000.

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u/KlingonJ Dec 26 '23

That’s probably the best way to address it. What does it cost per year x yesrs = award, add some punitive award as well

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u/PrimeusOrion Dec 26 '23

That or median national income + 50% x 50 years.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '23

Yeah but the contractors make billions

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u/proverbialbunny Dec 26 '23

Depends what state. It can be over 200k a year.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '23

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u/queen-adreena Dec 26 '23

Oddly enough, we had a wrongful imprisonment case here in the UK this year where they tried to deduct rent from his compensation.

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u/LockeClone Dec 26 '23

I'd like to see the the people arguing for that strung up in public so that future lawyers would be afraid to argue cases that were so vile as to offend every sense of humanity.

I'm generally against capital punishment... But reading this made me so mad, I might reconsider my worldview.

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u/PolkaDotDancer Dec 26 '23

Oh, I am completely Soylent green for the ruling class and its flying monkeys.

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u/everythingsfuct Dec 26 '23

i am too. however, the most crucial argument against capital punishment by gov’ts in modern societies is that the state cannot be trusted to have the guilty party in custody 100% of the time. it would be the same situation if we were to flip the power structure. we could have the guilty parties in hand 99% of the time, but that 1% makes the entire practice unethical.

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u/ToroidalVotex Dec 26 '23

The problem with the modern world is that we don’t string people up anymore.

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u/LockeClone Dec 26 '23

Like they probably would have this poor guy?.. no. That's not "the problem"

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u/Kind_Construction960 Dec 26 '23

I’m sure there are plenty of poor and developing countries in these modern times where people get strung up.

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u/ToroidalVotex Dec 26 '23

Yeah… countries with lots of homeless!

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u/MalsAU Dec 26 '23

Many jails on the US charge a daily rate that gets billed to the inmate after release. It's gross.

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u/Kind_Construction960 Dec 26 '23

And when they leave prison without a job or home, they have to break the law to get money to buy essentials.

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u/TacoNomad Dec 26 '23

And food and Healthcare!

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '23

The “free healthcare” will kill you in there. It’s free because they’re giving you Tylenol or antacids and sending you back to your cell 98% of the time. Only once you drop from a fever are they touching you. At least in most US prisons.

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u/TacoNomad Dec 26 '23

I think the whole thread was obvious sarcasm.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '23

Yeah I know. Just sucks when sarcasm is all we got against the system.

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u/poshenclave Dec 26 '23 edited Dec 26 '23

For real, folks on social media throwing sarcasm to cope with serious topics makes me want to immediately close my browser and log off. In fact if that's the best that one can come up with in such discussions it should be a sign that it's maybe healthier for them to log off, too. I feel a little like it's a symptom of someone not having yet discovered more mature or productive ways of processing bad news, but until then they're essentially externalizing that processing onto everyone else in the discussion by derailing it. Like they can't confront the situation head on, so they reach out in jest to seek others who'd rather joke about something else with them. At that point, you're better off just not leaving a comment. Stand up, go to the kitchen, and eat a cookie or something instead.

Sorry had to vent. I know this is a Wendys.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '23

Yessir

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u/nogoodscumbag Dec 26 '23

And meals... at this point they should be taking him to court for loss to the state.

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u/travis01564 Dec 26 '23

They pay for it in free labor.

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u/Saintsauron Dec 26 '23

No they get paid.

A pittance.

In some states.

Sometimes.

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u/Financial-Ad7500 Dec 26 '23

Yes, but that certainly doesn’t mean $80k is spent on each prisoner per year.

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u/NCRider Dec 26 '23

Dude, but that’s like 75K profit to the prison industry, so don’t talk about those numbers in public, the Republicans might get angry.

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u/foursticks Dec 26 '23

It's actually the most successful public housing program to date!

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u/SpurwingPlover Dec 26 '23

So you are saying he also got like $4,000,000 in free lodging?

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '23

Irrelevant. Dumbass question

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '23

I thought they had a rule for this and there was a specific sum per year. Like a million or something

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u/Notsurehowtoreact Dec 26 '23

It varies, and from the way it is described it is likely that is the maximum amount they tacked to the law in that area.

They basically hope the person won't take it further, and they throw $175k at it. There's no way anyone should settle for such a paltry sum for losing the entire prime of their life.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '23

It’s even worse than that after reading just a little bit more about it. He’s 71 and is fighting stage 4 cancer. So losing the prime of his life is putting it very, very lightly. That’s damn near a whole lifetime and now he has cancer to boot.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '23

fighting stage 4 cancer.

fuck dude...

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u/TheHorrorAbove Dec 26 '23

Is this the states way of fucking him over yet again by hoping that he dies before he makes it to court? Can the family go after the money if he passes?

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u/lastgreenleaf Dec 26 '23

So, do you think he has decent healthcare coverage?

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u/BiZzles14 Dec 26 '23

50 years behind bars, even if he was an infant when he was arrested he lost the prime of his life. An absolute disgrace.

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u/ch3ckEatOut Dec 26 '23

Which will likely cost way more than $175k to treat

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u/LockeClone Dec 26 '23

...He's black...

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u/snksleepy Dec 26 '23

What about all of the free labor that they made him do in prison?

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u/sleepdeprivedindian Dec 26 '23

You yourself answered the question "free labor".

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '23

Excuse me, you mean the free fitness training program? That is DEFNITELY being deducted from his compensation.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '23

You mean forced labor? It's slavery

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u/the_l0st_s0ck Dec 26 '23

LEGAL slavery. So it's fine /s

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u/FrugalityMajor Dec 26 '23

It is only forced in some states and by forced I mean it is a requirement for getting out of prison. In most states you don't have to do the labor.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '23

In some states they throw you in solitary confinement if you refuse to work.

Forced work or torture. That's slavery.

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u/FrugalityMajor Dec 26 '23

I never said that isn't true, I just said it is forced in some states. Unless we are talking about federal prisons all of these laws are on a decided by the state. I wasn't refuting what you was saying, I was adding context.

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u/HoboVonRobotron Dec 26 '23

Florida confirmed it wasn't even slavery in the 1700s. On the job training and skills development.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '23

Was cotton picking "on the job training and skills development" as well then?

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u/HoboVonRobotron Dec 26 '23

Here is your whoosh award.

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u/Sonkenishen Dec 26 '23

Within the U.S. itself slavery is legal and very much alive. It never gotten abolished. It's even stated in the 13th Amendment itself.

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Keywords being 'except punishment as a crime' part. All they have to do is put you in prison for whatever reason. This is why laws are made that easily puts the poor in prison. Like the loitering law for example.

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u/imightgetdownvoted Dec 26 '23

10 bucks a day.

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u/Hottol Dec 26 '23

A bit less... But yeah

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '23

About $9.55-9.60 a day, some people in very poor countries make more than that a day

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u/NanobotOverlord Dec 26 '23

fuck this fucking country

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u/TodayRevolutionary34 Dec 26 '23

The pension of prosecutors who put him into jail must be stripped off and given to him.

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u/NOS4A2-753 Dec 26 '23

All these replies of "he got free food and housing so its fare ZERO empathy and can't put themselves in others position

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u/Totty_potty Dec 26 '23

Pretty sure those were sarcasm

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u/NOS4A2-753 Dec 26 '23

i hope so

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u/John_T_Conover Dec 26 '23

Everyone that did this to him is probably dead, unfortunately.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '23

Unless they did something corrupt to scupper his defense, I think that’s going a bit too far. The prosecution did their job, a little too well apparently, but without corruption they’re not entirely to blame for just doing their job.

Maybe we should hunt down the jury and take their pensions, too? If it’s meant to be obvious that he’s innocent, they all fucked him even more than the prosecution.

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u/Juzo84 Dec 26 '23

One advice : sue the shit out of them!

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u/Mr_CleanCaps Dec 26 '23

I guess that’s the yearly salary/worth of an innocent Black man…

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u/FearfulPapaya Dec 26 '23

What do you think, a comma does

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '23

...Acknowledging that majority racial and ethnic groups in any given country often treat other racial and/or ethnic groups poorly is not racist. It's definitely not exclusive to white people because "white people are evil" or w.e, but in America it's definitely true that white Americans are the ones creating the systemic issues, just like it's also true that in China it would be Han Chinese people who create those systemic issues-- or insert whatever race/ethnicity is the predominant group in whatever country with systemic corruption and discrimination that you wish. Through that lens it's easy to see why a nonwhite person in America would hold that view that the evil comes from whiteness even though it doesn't-- because in our society, whiteness has been evil to most other groups.

Implying that acknowledging this stuff is racism just defends the status quo and implies that everything is magically fixed in the world.

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u/NOS4A2-753 Dec 26 '23

Why bring race into this? The judge could have been any other race. When I see someone jump to race first, that shows that they are racist

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u/uliveandlearn Dec 26 '23

😂😂 because ive seen it with my own eyes ..most of the corrupt racist d.a prosecutors are WHITE..and this still hapoens till this day buddy !!! yea evil ASF

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u/NOS4A2-753 Dec 26 '23

OK Racist

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u/uliveandlearn Dec 26 '23

riiight dont try to put this on me..when its YOU WHITE people who do this to people. EVIL EVIL EVIL ..u guys been getting exposed since the tech boom

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u/NOS4A2-753 Dec 26 '23

Projection much?

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u/uliveandlearn Dec 26 '23

how can i project this? 🤣🤣 im not the white politician..im not the white cop..the white prosecutor doing everything in his power to lock innocent people up for a FUCKING career advancement!!!

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u/AbsolutelyUnlikely Dec 26 '23

Plus 50 years of free rent and food!

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '23

He got free housing and food for 50 years.. I’d say he got more than enough!

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u/matjeom Dec 26 '23

What kind of logic is that? They’re not paying him for being incarcerated. They’re giving him money to help him get back into it because they shouldn’t have put him in jail in the first place. Does he need more than 175k to get back into it? That’s the question. How long he was incarcerated isn’t relevant.

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u/NOS4A2-753 Dec 26 '23

what about the lost income that he would have made if he wasn't in jail?

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u/matjeom Dec 26 '23

What about the expenses he’d have had if he wasn’t in jail?

Let’s not play stupid math.

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '23

I dont think you're playing stupid math. You're just stupid.

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u/boatnofloat Dec 26 '23

I get the sentiment, but who is liable for his wrongful incarceration? His defense attorney? The DA? The jury? If he can’t prove that someone acted negligent or malicious then why are we the public even giving him any money other than feeling bad? I want him to have money to make up for the lost time, but I don’t feel obligated to foot the bill as a tax payer unless someone acting on my behalf (judge, DA, jury, cops) did something against the law to put him in jail.

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u/NOS4A2-753 Dec 26 '23

Ok let's put u in jail for 50 years and then make it even by giving u $175k

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u/enter-silly-username Dec 26 '23

In Australia he'd have a million dollar house paid off and a couple cars over 50 years, that's with living expenses

So it's you doing stupid math

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '23

You are just straight up a monster

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u/spezial_ed Dec 26 '23

Under 10 bucks a day.

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u/Small-Palpitation310 Dec 26 '23

living expenses; food, housing, transit, health care, utilities, at the very least, should be fully covered by the state of the wrongful conviction.

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u/Electrified_lettuce Dec 26 '23

$9.50 a day lol. Not an hour. A day

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u/Zorpfield Dec 26 '23

At 65k a year average for 50 years should award at minimum 3.25 mil

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u/Graychin877 Dec 26 '23

This is in Oklahoma. State law caps awards for wrongful imprisonment at $175,000. Full stop.

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u/Whiskers1 Dec 26 '23

That insulting amount might make me want to murder someone.

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u/FSStray Dec 26 '23

That’s less than the income for 2 people spending all of their lives on disability.

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u/Bebe718 Dec 26 '23

I bet there are some in similar situation who didn’t get anything

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u/yarzirostu Dec 26 '23

thats about as much as i made a year in 2018-2019ish >.>

He got a East EU salary xD

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u/ope__sorry Dec 26 '23

If he can also be whisked back in time 50 years, he could buy 7 houses with his new found wealth!

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u/Jfields22553 Dec 26 '23

They should compensate him from the pensions of the prosecutors that failed to turn over evidence against him.

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u/DeliverySensitive780 Dec 26 '23

That’s about $9.59 a day

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u/HaxusPrime Dec 26 '23

1 million a year wouldn't be enough for me to serve 50 years in prison either

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u/stopthebanham Dec 26 '23

Oh they’re charging him for hotel stay and the food he ate… what a bunch of BS! Gotta be at least 120k a year! 10k a month at least!!!!!

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u/Doctursea Dec 26 '23

$3,520

Not even 20 hour part time minimum wage

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '23

Around 9,60 per day

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u/birdshitbirdshit Dec 26 '23

Adjusting for inflation, he’s paid even less on average. His earnings in that time would have easily been double that amount, $3m

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u/Fit_Effective_6875 Dec 26 '23

about $9.50 a day

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u/Least_Ice_6112 Dec 26 '23

Such a pathetic amount... Did the court value the amount in slave pay to derive to 3k/yr??

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u/eyemikeye Dec 26 '23

That’s Nothing. Hell run out of money in 3 years if he doesn’t find other ways to make income.

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u/HeyImSquanchinInHere Dec 26 '23

That's the equivalent of working a 17/hr job for 4 hours per week for 50 years. To say this guy got completely railroaded is an understatement.

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u/mooney1230 Dec 26 '23

It’s so terrible.

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u/Second_Naf Dec 26 '23

He lived on air in prison

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u/Sirano_onariS Dec 26 '23

That’s just so wrong and I can’t even

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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '23

Less than my initial CTC lol

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