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Exonerees need to be fairly compensated
Seth Miller
© Will Dickey/Florida Times-Union
Nathan Myers (left) hugs Clifford Williams during a press conference announcing their 1976 murder convictions have been overturned Thursday in Jacksonville. The order to vacate the convictions originated from the first ever conviction integrity review unit set up by State Attorney Melissa Nelson.
Florida’s wrongful conviction compensation law isn’t working for the people it is meant to serve. The law provides $50,000 for each year of wrongful incarceration, but it contains exclusionary eligibility criteria, which ultimately bar most exonerees from claiming the compensation they rightfully deserve. The law is so restrictive that only five of the state’s 76 exonerees have been paid since it was passed in 2008. 

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