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Lacuna Matata 🦁
@nilsjonsson.com

The restitution these white supremacist creeps refuse to pay is a shameful pittance. Imagine being offered the princely sum of $11,429 to survive for a year in one of America’s worst prisons. Now imagine having no choice in the matter and having it last 42 years. It should be $480 *million*.

Tracy Jan@tracyjan.bsky.social

His conviction was thrown out after a prosecutor admitted he had failed to turn over key fingerprint evidence. Eligible for up to $480K in state compensation, he hasn't received a cent. The Louisiana attorney general has opposed 22 of 23 compensation claims by wrongfully convicted people.

propublica.orgHe’s Eligible for Up to $480,000 After Being Wrongly Imprisoned for 42 Years. The State Says No.Elvis Brooks’ case was an egregious example of a wrongful conviction, civil rights attorneys said. But Louisiana’s attorney general maintains that Brooks and other exonerees are guilty — and therefore...

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