The estate of a deceased Madison man who was wrongly imprisoned will receive $97,500 from the Wisconsin Claims Board, according to a decision released Monday.

Members of the Wisconsin Claims Board expressed concern Wednesday that paying the estate of a deceased Madison man who was incarcerated for a crime for which he was acquitted may set precedent for other families to make similar claims.

The family of a Wisconsin man who died soon after he was denied compensation for a wrongful conviction plans to press his case again before the Wisconsin Claims Board this week.

The mother of a Madison man who died while trying to obtain compensation for a false conviction will get her day before a state board later this month.

A hearing for a man who died while trying to obtain compensation for his wrongful incarceration has been postponed.

The mother of a Madison man who died while trying to obtain compensation for a false conviction will get her day before a state board later this month.

Annette Bruner’s son meant much more to her than $25,000.

When justly convicted Wisconsin inmates are released, they walk out of prison armed with a written plan for re-entering society and the phone number of at least one state employee who will guide them through the transition.

A man wrongfully convicted of a 2002 sexual assault has been found dead in a parked car in Madison.

The state will pay $25,000 to a Milwaukee man who was wrongly convicted of a homicide that was later linked to a serial killer.

The Wisconsin Claims Board is considering claims from four people who were sentenced to time behind bars before their convictions were overturned.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Madison man who spent six years in prison for a sexual assault he didn’t commit was sent back to prison this week, this time after being convicted of a gun-possession charge that he said evolved from the trauma of his wrongful sentence. Forest S. Shomberg, 47, was sentenced Thursday to one year in federal prison ...