$50,000 a year for wrongful imprisonment? Not enough.

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I have a simple filter when it comes to matters like this.

I ask myself: how much would be enough to reimburse me?

We took everything away from this man for 17 years. How do we give 17 years back?

If anyone's imprisonment is the result of prosecutorial misconduct, then what ever figure arrived at should be tripled.

But that said, how much is enough?

This guy paid a debt to society that he did not owe. How does society reimburse him?

It wasn't that long ago that a lawyer in Portland, Brandon Mayfield, was arrested and held for what... a couple of weeks? On charges he was involved in the terrorist bombiong of the Spanish trains.

And what was HIS compensation?

$2 Million. For two weeks of incarceration.

How is it that Justice can settle with Mayfield for $2 million for a wrongful arrest... and this guy gets NOTHING for 17 years?

And even under this bill, how is it that Mayfield gets $2 million for a few days, and this guy might get $850,000 for 17 YEARS?????

While I'm not sure how much is enough... I am sure of one thing: $50,000 per year ain't it.
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