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Do innocent prisoners that are released get compensation?

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Do innocent prisoners that are released get compensation?

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Not if they are just held waiting for trial. A few of states have compensation laws for those who have served time for which they have wrongly convicted. Most rely on special legislative bills for compensation. The idea is to compensate only those who have been wrongly convicted for something they have been proven innocent of; not just those who’ve gotten convictions overturned due to technicalities.