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California Improves Compensation Process for Wrongfully Convicted Prisoners
Loaded on May 19, 2014
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2014, page 12
California Improves Compensation Process for Wrongfully Convicted Prisoners
On October 13, 2013, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law Senate Bill 618, legislation that streamlines the process for providing financial compensation to people who are wrongfully convicted, exonerated and released from prison. The bill had been introduced by state ...
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