ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Several men who were imprisoned in Maryland and later found to be innocent are testifying for a measure to address how the wrongly incarcerated should be compensated by the state.
The bill is scheduled for hearings on Wednesday before state lawmakers.
It would provide $78,916 for each year a wrongly convicted person spent in prison.
It's based on a five-year average of the state's median household income.
That was a formula used last year to compensate five exonerees who had spent a total of 120 years in prison. The current law does not specify a monetary amount.
