Wrongfully convicted man to receive $1.5 million after 46 years in prison - Sensationalist Headlines

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/richard-phillips-wrongfully-convicted-man-awarded-1-5-million-after-46-years-in-prison/ In 1971, he was arrested for a murder we now know he didn't commit. To pass the time and temper the injustice, he painted. "It was something to do, occupy my mind," Phillips said. "I could get off into one of my paintings and just be in there for hours." That's how it was for 46 years, until he was exonerated last spring. That's more time served than any other exoneree in U.S. history. After all that, they just let him go, without so much as a bus ticket. Failing him for a second time, until now. One year into his newfound freedom, the state attorney general finally agreed those lost years were worth $1.5 million. Now state legislators just need to approve the money.

1.5 million for 46 years? man lost 70% of his life, i surely they can do a bit better than that

It should at the very least be 46 years at the average wage plus interest.

$1,500,000 / 46 years = $32,608/yr. 32,608 / 52 working weeks / 40 hours a week = $15/hr. They gave him the equivalent to minimum wage in some state. Get fucked.

Then watch them take half of it back in taxes.

And the legislator still need to approve the money, meaning he might not see a penny?

Time can't be bought.

Even if we hope and expect them to give more, they never will and its pretty shit. No amount of money can make a difference for that many years in prison falsely and its brutal...Can you imagine just falsely accused and even when you got out so many years lately, you are just so much older now and the time stripped from you from doing other things from said life. Its depressing.

To be fair if he was actually working a job he'd be paying rent, utilities, car payments, etc. He surely deserves more than 1.5 million though.

Should be given a million per year of his life wasted. This is unjust.

Even in this case you get thrown into an equation as if you were just a random person with a very slightly different conundrum. Trump won't probably eve aknowledge this guy's existence, not that's a huge miss or anything.

This guy shouldn't have to work a day in his life and live comfortably after this shit

This is America. If you aren't rich and white, get fucked, because every system from the educational, to the medical, and to the prison system are for profit/to be exploited by the ones with power. Country's fundamentally broken since it's been ran by the companies trying to make all the money in the world for longer than the last few generations.

Of course the wrongfully convicted man is black. Racism is starting to get back to as bad as it was in the 70-60s right now it seems.

Starting?

He was convicted in the 70's tho'

This is a fear I have. Imagine being wrongfully convicted for most of if not your entire life. It must be absolutely devastating because your opinion doesn't matter once you're behind bars.

Well he could probably do that with 1.5mil.

He'll be getting 70% of that if he's lucky. He might be able to do okay if he invests it in the stock market, but if he wants to do things like afford a decent house first, he's fucked.

It wouldn't be as bad if they gave him that $15/hr for every hour he was wrongly imprisoned, rather than what would be considered working hours. He didn't get to go home after a shift