Exciting ummm...employment opportunities in Texas

Earn $80,000/year while behind bars in prison for a crime you didn't commit.

...Under Texas compensation laws for the wrongly imprisoned, Dupree is eligible for $80,000 for each year he was behind bars, plus a lifetime annuity. He could receive $2.4 million in a lump sum that is not subject to federal income tax...

However, to offer $80K/yr to the wrongfully imprisoned seems...well...high enough that other more "entrepreneurial type" people might see this program as an ummm..."opportunity". All you'd have to do is frame yourself for some crime, hide/obscure the critical exculpatory evidence, then allow it to be "found" when you've decided the payday is suitably large.

In today's employment challenged economy, there's gotta be a lot of folks who would very willingly do a "phony nickle" knowing there was a $400,000 payday waiting for them on the other side; even more so if they happened to have some medical problems they couldn't afford to have treated otherwise.

If I recognized this angle, you know a bunch of others probably have too.

posted by Purp at 06:16 AM

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