Arguement In Prison Compensation

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There are many people in the United states who have been convicted of a crime, but later proven innocent, and due to this their lives are ruined. Every state needs to work to help those people get back on their feet, giving compensation, firing those who, unjustly, put them in prison, and help with housing and a job. Those who have been proven innocent should be compensated because the time they spend in prison will cause them to lose their jobs, and have no source of salary to support themselves. If the judge sentenced someone to prison, knowing they are innocent, they should be sent to fired, and legally unable to become a judge anywhere else, and spend time in prison, and the same should go to police officers who abuse their power. There’s …show more content…

Anyone who spends eleven months and two weeks in prison will be given the sixty thousand, all do with fairness to the person, and also as an apology from the state. Sixty thousand seems like a bit much, and it won’t just come out of taxpayers’ pockets, because it won’t stop the police, and judges, from imprisoning innocent people. Instead the money will come from: police station’s budget, judges wallet, budget and donation from prisons and just a bit from taxpayers. Police stations will pay thirty-five percent of the sixty thousand, which will be twenty-one thousand, and the judges will also pay thirty-five percent. They will pay for a majority of the money because they are most responsible for imprisoning an innocent person. This will teach them to be careful, and try to make sure they don’t purposely convict an innocent man. The prisons these people stay in will pay twenty-five percent of the sixty thousand, which would be fifteen thousand, and they won’t be allowed to use the money meant to be used for the prisoners, like food budget. Conditions in prisons are horrible, and those who are innocent may be harassed, or worse, by an inmate, and for this reason they will pay twenty-five percent. This percentage can be thirty five, and the judges will be twenty-five, depending if on how the person was treated in prison, and if it was an honest mistake of the judge. Lastly, the taxpayers will only pay five percent, which will be three thousand. The people’s money shouldn’t spend much of the compensation because the police arrested an innocent man. Any money still missing will be paid by the police, judges, or the

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