The price of freedom is pathetically low in Florida, and the cost of injustice is much too high.
The going rate is $50,000 for every year people languish in prison before being exonerated for crimes they did not commit. That’s less than $6 an hour, much less than the minimum wage.
The necessity for this reality is a deeply flawed system where wrongful convictions are commonplace. There have been 3,326 exonerations since records have been kept since 1989, including 85 in Florida. How many more are out there?
