Arguement In Prison Compensation

There are many people in the United states who have been convicted of a crime, but later proven innocent, and due to this their lives are ruined. Every state needs to work to help those people get back on their feet, giving compensation, firing those who, unjustly, put them in prison, and help with housing and a job. Those who have been proven innocent should be compensated because the time they spend in prison will cause them to lose their jobs, and have no source of salary to support themselves. If the judge sentenced someone to prison, knowing they are innocent, they should be sent to fired, and legally unable to become a judge anywhere else, and spend time in prison, and the same should go to police officers who abuse their power. There’s

a high chance that the people who have been proven innocent won’t get their jobs back, and if they don’t have anyone they will lose their homes, and because of this the government should pay for apartments for them, and have someone to help them find a job. It’s hard enough spending time in prison for a crime you didn’t commit, but not to get compensated for anything is a bigger slap to the face.
Some states have some compensation, others have no kind of compensation for those have been proven innocent of crime, but all states should give compensations for them. When it comes to per year, I believe fair compensation is about sixty thousand a year, along with five thousand a month spent in prison. This amount is fair for a number of reasons, like the lost of a job will affect those who don’t have much money. A lost of a job, won’t allow someone to buy the  necessary items they need daily, and any amount they have, before they were sent to prison, won’t be enough to live off until they find a new home. Those who don’t have a home to go to, but spent years in prison need that much money to help them find a new home, along with food that they need to survive. Walter Mcmillian spent six years behind bars, lost his home, his family didn’t want him near for a while, and lost his home, ruining his life. Six years in prison, with sixty thousand dollars per year would be three hundred sixty thousand dollars and with that anyone can start to rebuild their life.
If someone spends a year and a month in prison, the compensation should be sixty-five thousand, and even if someone a year and two weeks in prison, they should get the money for the whole month, or at the very least a fraction of five thousand.

Anyone who spends eleven months and two weeks in prison will be given the sixty thousand, all do with fairness to the person, and also as an apology from the state. Sixty thousand seems like a bit much, and it won’t just come out of taxpayers’ pockets, because it won’t stop the police, and judges, from imprisoning innocent people. Instead the money will come from: police station’s budget, judges wallet, budget and donation from prisons and just a bit from taxpayers. Police stations will pay thirty-five percent of the sixty thousand, which will be twenty-one thousand, and the judges will also pay thirty-five percent. They will pay for a majority of the money because they are most responsible for imprisoning an innocent person. This will teach them to be careful, and try to make sure they don’t purposely convict an innocent man. The prisons these people stay in will pay twenty-five percent of the sixty thousand, which would be fifteen thousand, and they won’t be allowed to use the money meant to be used for the prisoners, like food budget. Conditions in prisons are horrible, and those who are innocent may be harassed, or worse, by an inmate, and for this reason they will pay twenty-five percent. This percentage can be thirty five, and the judges will be twenty-five, depending if on how the person was treated in prison, and if it was an honest mistake of the judge. Lastly, the taxpayers will only pay five percent, which will be three thousand. The people’s money shouldn’t spend much of the compensation because the police arrested an innocent man. Any money still missing will be paid by the police, judges, or the

prison.
The police force, and judges, have a high chance of being corrupt, or abuse their power, because they want to be, or they are being paid off by someone. They shouldn’t be treated like they are above the law, and shouldn’t be safe from punishment. Police and judges shouldn’t just pay for most of the compensation, they need to be punished and be shown little mercy for destroying innocent lives, and being responsible for sending them to prison.One of their punishments will not only be being fired, but also being legally unable to pursue a job as a police officer, or a judge again. The reason for this is to make sure they won’t go back to their corrupt ways once they find the same job somewhere else. For example, in Just Mercy, there’s a corrupt officer named Mr.Tate, and for twenty-five years, he has been head of the police, when he should be in prison for helping to falsely convict an innocent man. They shouldn’t be allowed to go back to that job at all and if they try to they should be fined or spend time in prison. This way the number of corrupt police officers and judges will drop dramatically, and will make sure no more police officers and judges become corrupt. The other punishment they will be prison time for sending innocent people  to prison. Their time in prison will be be either equal to the time the person they sent to prison had spent or at the very minimum four years in prisons. It should be four years because destroying someone’s life should have a heavy punishment and there is no telling how many people they have sent to prison. These punishments are to make sure that those who imprison innocent people are sent to prison and punished for their crimes.
Many people are sent to prison, even though they are sent to prison, and because of this they can lose their  money, job and even their home. With no money, they can’t live a normal life and will most likely become homeless. This will increase the number of homeless people in America, and will cause them to commit crimes just to survive. During the time someone spends in prison, they might end up losing their house, even if they do have family they could live with there is a chance that they won’t be allowed to live with them, or their family won’t help them at all. If you spend enough time away from your work, chances are that you will get fired, even if the reason is that they were sent to prison. Losing their job will affect them greatly because they will lose their source of income, which leads to becoming homeless, and then leads to them committing crimes in order to survive. Even if they get compensation, most people wouldn’t hire someone who has been to prison, even if they are innocent, and without being able to get a job, they won’t be able sustain their way of life. Walter McMillian was sent to prison for six years, and in those six years, he lost the business he owned and personally built, lost his home with family not wanting to help and he had little to no money. In the documentary “Making a Murderer” Steven Avery spent eighteen years in prison, and if he didn’t own land, or his own business, he would have lost his job and his home. These people shouldn’t be forced to use their compensation to find a place to live and get food until he got a proper job to support themselves. When it comes to getting a home, the state should assign someone to help these people find a new home, if they need a home, and pay for their rent until they get a new job. When it comes to a job, the state should either offer them a job, or help them find a job, and keep doing so until they get a job. Once they get a proper job, then the state can stop paying for that persons rent. With the loss of a job and a home,people will have no choice but to commit crimes in order to survive, but id the state helps people find jobs and homes then the crime rate might lower. Also, all records of them being in prison should be erased from their records and stop media from portraying them as criminals.
We see the news paint everyone who has been arrested as a monster who deserves to be there, but at times those people are innocent and don’t deserve to be sent to prison. There are hundreds of innocent people in prison who have spent months, some even years,and in that time, their lives are being destroyed. In some cases, the police and judges know they are innocent but go for a conviction for one reason or another, and even if that person is found innocent those officers and judges aren’t punished. The officers and judges involved should be fired and banned from becoming an officer or judge ever again, along with spending time in prison for knowingly sending an innocent person to prison, If the judge made a mistake and didn’t mean to send an innocent man to prison, at most he should pay for compensation for that man. After that person is released from prison they should be given sixty thousand dollars per year and five thousand per month as compensation. Thirty-five percent should be paid by the police stations budget, thirty-five percent from the judges paycheck, twenty-five percent from the prison budgets and donation and five prevent from taxpayer money. Since they will most likely have no home, or job, the state should help them find a home, and pay for their rent until they are able to help that person find a new job. There needs to be careful measurements to make sure no innocent person is sent to prison, because if they are sent to prison their lives might be ruined.