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Still seems low. Imagine someone who said, "just sign here. If you make it through the next 44 years without leaving this cell, you'll win $25 million." Would anyone take that deal? A settlement is supposed to make a person "whole."
I’d settle for heads on plates though.
Chances are they're long dead.
88 years each, no parole.
Especially in a American prision. Who even paus that? Is that tax payer money? If yes. This is beyond hilarious.
Yup, it's taxpayer money.
The logic is that shit like this will cause voters to demand change and vote in people who will make sure stuff like this doesn't happen again. But the reality is that most voters simply don't care, and there's a non-zero number of voters who are unhappy because they want the black man to stay in prison whether he's innocent or not.
One of them is the presumptive Republican frontrunner.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/6/18/18684217/trump-central-park-5-netflix
I wonder if anyone has done the math on how much labor he had to do in prison, and how much he would have been paid for that same labor outside of prison for 44 years at a regular job?
Assuming you get a job at 16, 44 years outside of jail and in the workforce would take you to 60*, most people's retirement age.
16+44 is 60, not 70
I am shit at math.
In the US, it’s still not gonna be 25 million (on average, lower for POC sadly), but I don’t think any amount would fix the damage from 44 years in any prison.
Nothing can give time back and make this right. That being said, 22 million on top of 3 million from another case, I feel is a pretty reasonable settlement. He can live his remaining years in luxury at least. Not sure real justice can be found for so many years of someone's life wrongfully taken from them.
It isn't, but it's enough to let him live the rest of his life rich and make any city think twice about steamrolling anyone. Too bad everyone involved in it is likely already dead.