DNA proved you were wrongfully convicted. after 30 years in prison, how much money does your state owe you?

I’d own the state.

No amount of money is gonna get those 30 years back. A couple of billion would be a start though!

Absolutely you should be compensated for monies lost. However one can never be compensated for the loss of liberty & consequent erasure of what amounts to a ⅓ of your life. That wrong can never be righted.

@Jay170590 I agree with you….........

At least enough to comfortably support me and my family for the next 30 years. As a matter of fact, maybe enough so that I don’t ever have to work again.

No amount of money can compensate for 30 years of brutalization and confinement. Nothing can compensate for the suffering of family and the decades of love and experience with them.
Nothing can compensate for decades of lost opportunity to make something of my life.
Nothing can compensate for the emotion damage to me as a person.
Nothing and compensate for the damage to my body and my health that imprisonment produced that will shorten the rest of my life.
Nothing can compensate for 30 years of humiliation and rage at the injustice.

No matter how large the financial and other compensation, I am still 30 years older, and brutalized, damaged, unloved, debilitated, and chewed up inside.

Money can only make misery more “comfortable.”
Can I spend time with parents that died while I was in prison?
Can I be a good husband or father and spend a lifetime raising them and sharing life with someone I love?
Can I get my emotional health back?
Can my body be restored?
Can I live a full and life as a whole human being?

Any amount I can’t outlive will be a suitable but ultimately meaningless compensation.

This is one reason why the Innocence Project is so important. You can see what they are continuing to do at; http://www.innocenceproject.org/

A shit ton, but no amount of money could give you 30 years of your life back.

Nothing. Shit happens.

No amount of money can compensate for the loss of one’s time, youth, and reputation. But money would help the person to rebuild his/her life. Recently, a Florida man lived out this very scenario, and he was compensated with one million dollars ($50,000 for each year he’d been imprisoned). It was the least that the state could do for him, since he wasn’t able to work for those 30+ years.

@ratboy Shit did not happen to me, it was done to me.

Great answer, lonelydragon. i had rather let ten guilty men go free, rather than to arrest and convict one innocent person.

You get a SHIT load. Millions.

No amount will make up for all the shit you had to go through and loss of life and living.