I spent 22 years in prison for a crime I didn’t commit

Re:I spent 22 years in prison for a crime I didn’t commit by fwn on Thursday December 05, 2019 @03:20AM (#21710757)

> how many people can realistically pull $120,000 from friend and family _and_ expect to pay it all back?

Taking everything said at face value, you pay 120k for 6 years in the job market. That's 20k a year, without interest.

edit: please don't read this as an "oh, only 20k a year" comment. My intention was just to make the number approachable by connecting it to the given return.

In the same way one would explain unreasonably high college expenses.

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Re:I spent 22 years in prison for a crime I didn’t commit by metaphor on Thursday December 05, 2019 @04:45AM (#21711092)

On top of all other typical expenses and obligations, that's effectively a respectable mortgage that most households in the US[1] likely wouldn't be able to afford. It's a pretty ridiculous financial burden to shoulder for anyone who isn't in roughly the top 10th-percentile income bracket.

[1] https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2018/demo/p60-26...

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Re:I spent 22 years in prison for a crime I didn’t commit by lm28469 on Thursday December 05, 2019 @04:51AM (#21711121)

Keep in mind that in the us the median income per capita is less than 32k. It's hard to save 20k a years on that kind of revenues.

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Re:I spent 22 years in prison for a crime I didn’t commit by cameronbrown on Thursday December 05, 2019 @03:53AM (#21710876)

That's more than half of some (most?) peoples' salary.

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Re:I spent 22 years in prison for a crime I didn’t commit by jandrese on Thursday December 05, 2019 @12:10PM (#21714035)

Try getting a high paying job with a criminal record. Even if you were acquitted.

And going to trial with an expensive lawyer is not guarantee of success. You may have an actual criminal record and years in jail before you can begin to pay that back.

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