The Wisconsin claims board has asked the Legislature to award nearly $1 million to a Milwaukee man who spent 24 years in prison for crimes he did not commit.

The Wisconsin Claims Board on Friday awarded $25,000 to a U.S. Navy veteran who spent 26 years behind bars for a homicide he didn't commit.

The Wisconsin Claims Board is schedled to hear a former prison inmate's demand for nearly $6 million in compensation.

A man who spent 25 years in prison in connection with a 1992 homicide wants the state to pay him nearly $6 million, according to documents filed with the Wisconsin Claims Board.

A man would receive $7.5 million from the City of Milwaukee after he was wrongly imprisoned for 24 years based on what he says was bogus bite-mark evidence.

The Wisconsin Claims Board on Tuesday denied a man’s request to be compensated for spending three years in jail for convictions that were later overturned.

A state board has denied three requests for innocent conviction compensation.

The Wisconsin Senate is unlikely to take up bills that would outlaw so-called sanctuary cities for immigrants, increase compensation for the wrongly convicted and allow students to deduct debt from their income taxes when it convenes Tuesday for what's expected to be the last floor period of the two-year legislative session.

The future of a bill that would dramatically boost compensation for the wrongly convicted is now uncertain, with the Wisconsin Senate putting off a vote Tuesday.

Imagine the horror of being wrongly imprisoned for a heinous crime you didn't commit. In Wisconsin, that has happened to an estimated 40 people in the past 25 years.

A bill that would increase compensation for people wrongly convicted of crimes has open records advocates worried over what it would do to court records.

Wisconsin legislators took a step Tuesday toward dramatically increasing compensation for the wrongly convicted, unanimously passing a bill in the state Assembly that would boost exonorees' payouts and grant them state insurance and job training benefits.

A state Senate committee unanimously approved a bipartisan bill Wednesday to dramatically increase the payout for people wrongly convicted of crimes in Wisconsin.

After Jarrett Adams was exonerated of a sexual assault conviction that landed him in prison for nearly 10 years, he found work moving stones.

Two legislative committees are set to hold public hearings on a bill that would increase state compensation limits for wrongful convictions.

The parents of a Milwaukee man who was convicted of murder as a teenager then acquitted after spending five years in prison are asking a state panel to compensate the wrongly convicted man for the time he spent in prison.

A bipartisan group of state lawmakers is moving to dramatically restructure compensation rules for people wrongly convicted in Wisconsin, introducing a bill Thursday that would raise the maximum payout from $25,000 to $1 million and remove exonerees' cases from the state's public court database.

A jury has handed down a $1 million verdict to a man wrongfully convicted in a 1998 killing who sued the city of Milwaukee.

A man whose sex assault charges were dismissed after the victim recanted her testimony is asking for compensation for the time he spent in prison.

A Republican legislator says he's considering crafting a bill that would increase state compensation for wrongful convictions.

State officials have decided a former construction foreman’s wrongful imprisonment on rape charges entitles him to compensation for the three years he spent behind bars.

When three half brothers' decades-old murder convictions were thrown out last month, they became a dramatic example of an idea spreading among prosecutors nationwide: "integrity units" dedicated to double-checking convictions to determine whether justice was served.

Hospitals have staff conferences to examine why patients died. Airline pilots have a system for voluntarily submitting information on safety concerns. Yet the life-and-death world of criminal justice often operates without a similar mechanism for probing its most feared failures: wrongful convictions.

A man wrongfully convicted of homicide would get more money from the state of Wisconsin under a bill passed by the Senate.

The state Assembly passed a bill Tuesday giving additional compensation to a man who was wrongfully convicted of homicide.

If a bill introduced this week had been law earlier this year, David Turnpaugh would be out $780.90.

The Wisconsin Senate has approved a bill that would increase compensation for a wrongfully convicted man.

Wisconsin lawmakers are working on a pair of bipartisan bills that would boost compensation for a man who spent more than two decades behind bars for a homicide he didn't commit as well as for all wrongful convictions.

A Wisconsin man whose conviction for soliciting a prostitute was overturned is asking the state to pay him $46,000.

The Assembly version of a bill designed to pay thousands to a Milwaukee man who spent 23 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit was introduced Tuesday.