Terry Irving awarded $130,000 after decades fighting for justice over five years of wrongful imprisonment

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• WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  130k is bullshit

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  • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    IKR, it’s such a disrespectfully low sum!

    The absolute floor that should have been awarded ought to be the equivalent of 5yrs of minimum wage for 24hrs a day, 7 days a week, including overtime, weekend and public holiday penalty rates, indexed to inflation for ever year since his incarceration.

    …and even then, I would still be frustrated that it was only minimum wage!

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• Toto@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Good for him!

  Also, he looks like a Museum of Science Cave Man mannequin

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  • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I mean, you wouldn’t be looking your best either if you had to spend five years falsely imprisoned and then decades more fighting for vindication.

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