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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 46 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

If I saw an article with the title

UK man has $80,000 room and board bill from prison after being found not guilty of murder.

I'd be looking to see if it was from the onion.

[–] marble@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

Holy shit.

He explained that his compensation was also calculated on the assumption that he would never have worked and would have received benefits.

Fucking monsters.

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Probably to regain the lost funds into the imprisonment fund from the compensation fund for wrongful imprisonment. Might be more of a dumb than an evil thing.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

No, it's evil.

Another person replied with a real story where it happened. They also did this to the guy wrongfully imprisoned 25 years

He explained that his compensation was also calculated on the assumption that he would never have worked and would have received benefits.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy31pk1w0lo

Edit: And I could see maybe its hard to assume he'd become a lawyer or Dr with high wages, but no job with only benefits, and then room and board subtracted? Savage.