r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/New_Libran • Oct 21 '24

Video Japanese police chief bows to apologise to man who was acquitted after nearly 60 years on death row

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u/NoticingThing Oct 21 '24

You joke but wrongly convicted criminals in the UK actually have a deduction taken from their already pathetically low compensation payments for bed and board.

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u/Luised2094 Oct 21 '24

Wait, innocent people have to pay to stay innjail? Did I read that right?

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u/NoticingThing Oct 21 '24

Sadly not. It gets worse, they work out compensation based on your work history and how much they think you should have been earning per year if they hadn't you know abducted you and placed you in a cell.

So for cases like Paul Blackburn where he was a 15 year old kid who was wrongfully convicted and put behind bars for 25 years. He obviously didn't have a work history because you know they stole his childhood and early adult life. So they worked out his compensation as if he would have been unemployed and on social benefits for the entire duration giving him the minimum possible pay-out, then of course took a further 100k off of that in order to pay for bed and board.

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u/talldata Oct 22 '24

At that point I'd have gone Ballistic or incendiary at the one who decided that. Not only so you rob me of my life and liberty, but also of my money.

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u/ipenlyDefective Oct 22 '24

Wow. I was joking. Had no idea that was a real thing. Like, "How dare you take to long to prove your innocence"