Holloway was greeted by members of the wisconsin Innocence Project who helped him regain his freedom. If you are wrongfully convicted and sent to prison. You do get compensated. But wisconsin has one of the lowest payout. With a cap of 25thousand dollars. A state lawmaker is working to change that. Cbs 58s Kristen Barbaresi joins us in the newsroom to break down those details, kristen . There is an effort to increase that cap from 25thousand to a million,but even if it became law, it might not benefit records show he had a prior felony conviction in 1986, which could limit his in eligible 3 i think we have a responsibility to help folks like that out. Representative Dale Kooyenga wants people, wrongfully convicted of crimes, to be eligible for up to 50thousand dollars for each year they spent in prison. A state legislator makes. The cap would be 1Million Dollars. Kooyenga proposed the legislation to make it happen and because exonerations dont happen a lot he says we arent talking abou
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