alt Hacker NewsI think the taxpayers owe this lady at least a couple million if not more for the inconvenience they chose to put her through.
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throwaway17_17 • today at 4:12 AM
I agree, but our system doesn’t value things that way. Texas, which is one of the highest paying States for cases where intentional, fraudulent, or grossly negligent actions result in wrongful incarceration pay $80,000 dollars per year a person is locked up. But the caveat is that time only starts counting after you are sentenced, so wouldn’t even apply in TFA’s case.
That shouldn't be taxpayers. That should come from the malpractice insurance, similarly how doctors pay.
After a while, when premiums shoot up, they'd start to behave