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Compensation for Wrongful Imprisonment Clears State Senate Panel

State Capitol - file photo
Kevin Lavery, WKAR

(MPRN-Lansing) The state would compensate people who are wrongfully imprisoned under a bill that cleared a state Senate committee on Tuesday. 

People found to be innocent after serving time would get $60,000 for every year they were incarcerated. Senate Bill 291 now goes to the full state Senate. Similar legislation cleared a state House panel earlier this year, but House Bill 4536 has since stalled on the House floor.

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