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What Are 40 Years in Prison Worth to Wrongly Convicted Man?

SACRAMENTO — California has awarded nearly $2 million in compensation to a former inmate wrongly imprisoned for almost 40 years. Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday signed a law giving 70-year-old Craig Richard Coley $140 for each day he was in prison. Coley was wrongly convicted of killing his girlfriend, 24-year-old...

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