“Prosecutors need to be held accountable. They shouldn’t get to destroy someones life and then simply say sorry.”
I withdraw my smart crack about your ‘dumbness’ - I viewed you comment in isolation from this context. I agree with your larger point about the perverse incentives enjoyed by prosecutors and some police - to advance their careers they railroad chumps, and this financial remedy just eases their consciences at the public expense.
Still, to engineer one’s own false conviction on the hopes of a certain monetary reward makes an interesting movie premise, but could hardly be a rational choice, given the violent chaos of the prison system.
Imprisoning reckless prosecutors would be a reasonable step to reduce the overall occurrence of wrongful convictions.
I accept your “withdraw”.
There’s several levels of prison security. From minimum to maximum. I assume this applies to any wrongful conviction regardless of which level prison you end up in. It doesn’t have to be a violent crime does it? Just a wrongful conviction.
I would think there would be a number of people that would be willing to go to a minimum security prison for 5 years, walk away with $400k and a lifetime annuity. Especially people that already have been there and know how to handle it and are only getting minimum wage outside prison with little chance of improving it.