My Question of the Day: It’s bad enough to be caged like an animal when you’re correctly convicted of a crime, but imagine spending the better part of your life imprisoned for a crime you didn’t commit. New advances with DNA are causing wrongfully-convicted individuals to be released from prison after serving 20, 30, even 40 years behind bars. With all that in mind, once a person has been found innocent and released from prison, how should he/she be compensated because of his/her wrongful imprisonment?

My 2 Cents: Time can never be replaced. When it’s gone, it’s gone.

No amount of money can replace stolen time, but there should be an effort to try to compensate wrongly-imprisoned individuals.

Along with monetary compensation, there should be a series of workshops and/or classes to help these individuals acclimate to modern-day society.

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