If you are wrongfully convicted of a crime in Wisconsin and sent to prison, there’s a $25,000 cap on what the state will pay you once you prove your innocence. That’sthe lowest compensation rate of any state in the country . But the Wisconsin Innocence project is working on changing that. Gil Halsted reports…
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