Wrongly Incarcerated Have To Pay For Room and Board in Prison!!

[I am Jack]

I think I would skip out on the check. Ha ha.

Wrongly convicted defendants are freed from prisons regularly now, some after many years' incarceration, and lawsuits against the legal system that put them there are proliferating. Three men in Birmingham, England, who were recently freed after, respectively, 18, 18 and 11 years in prison for murders, were (in separate trials) awarded a total of 2.16 million British pounds (about $4.2 million), but the Court of Appeal ruled in March that they will have to give 25 percent back to the government as compensation for their "room and board," i.e., tiny cells and prison food, during all those years. [BBC News, 3-14-07]

You may think this is wrong, but for the entire time they were in prison, they did not have to pay for food, housing, clothing, entertainment, etc. Just because their lives, reputations and relationships were ruined doesn't mean they should get a free ride :P

[I am Jack]

Originally Posted by erokyrwrld

You may think this is wrong, but for the entire time they were in prison, they did not have to pay for food, housing, clothing, entertainment, etc. Just because their lives, reputations and relationships were ruined doesn't mean they should get a free ride :P

Gosh, I never thought about it that way, how shortsighted of me! Ha ha!