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Assembly approves wrongful conviction compensation
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.
Legislators endorse higher payouts for wrongful convictions
A state Senate committee unanimously approved a bipartisan bill Wednesday to dramatically increase the payout for people wrongly convicted of crimes in Wisconsin.
Bill would increase compensation for wrongfully convicted
After Jarrett Adams was exonerated of a sexual assault conviction that landed him in prison for nearly 10 years, he found work moving stones.
Legislative committees to take comments on compensation bill
Two legislative committees are set to hold public hearings on a bill that would increase state compensation limits for wrongful convictions.
Parents want compensation for wrongly convicted son
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.
Legislators propose raising wrongful conviction cap (UPDATE)
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.
Jury awards $1M to man wrongly convicted of woman’s killing
A jury has handed down a $1 million verdict to a man wrongfully convicted in a 1998 killing who sued the city of Milwaukee.
Former Kenosha man wants compensation for wrongful conviction
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.
Legislator considering more wrongful conviction compensation
A Republican legislator says he's considering crafting a bill that would increase state compensation for wrongful convictions.
Board grants former inmate $25K for wrongful imprisonment (UPDATE)
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.
US prosecutors revisiting nearly 5,000 convictions
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.
Legal minds eye quality control for convictions
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.
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