Sentence examples for of wrongful incarceration from inspiring English sources

Our history is replete with instances of wrongful incarceration.

Mr. Rivera, meanwhile "has suffered the nightmare of wrongful incarceration," it said.

Texas's policy was to pay fifty thousand dollars for each year of wrongful incarceration — already one of the highest rates in the country.

To settle civil actions, the city is paying about $1,000 per hour of wrongful incarceration, said Richard Cardinale, a lawyer in Brooklyn who said he had filed claims for 25 people and received settlements for all of them.

And, after nearly two hours delivering accounts of wrongful incarceration and mistreatment, the actors are probably no more inclined to indulge the time-honoured artifice of the curtain call than the audience is to receive it.

Annexed in a "miscellaneous" section of the act which deals with "other criminal justice provisions", the CJIA caps compensation payouts at £1m for those who have suffered more than a decade of wrongful incarceration, and £500,000 in any other case.

For years it was unclear if they were obligated to pay taxes on the compensation, because prior to the 2015 law, the status of money paid for wrongful incarceration was vague under IRS rules.

Between January and November of last year, 675 indigenous people were freed with the assistance of the program, highlighting a striking vulnerability to wrongful incarceration.

With weak evidence against the three, the men might have been acquitted and then sued the state for wrongful incarceration.

VICE trekked to Alaska to meet two members of the Fairbanks Four, the community members who rallied behind them, and the investigators who helped secure their freedom exploring the enduring impact of their wrongful incarceration and the native community's effort to move forward.

Leroy also publishes various media on the intersection of race and disability; he's one of the leading voices on police brutality and the wrongful incarceration of people with disabilities.