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If this innocent person was eligible for payments in Missouri, which she is not, and if the bill was passed to increase payments, then she may have received a maximum of $2.8m. However, it'd be paid as an annuity of $65k per year. If she dies her family would get nothing more. And, the payments are in lieu of a civil suit.
She'll have to sue if she wants justice. I hope she does. I've been to prison. I think she deserves to be comfortable for the rest of her life.
What did make you enter a prison voluntarily?
Why do you believe it was voluntary?
I didn't. It was a stab in the dark. 50/50 chance.
In the US most of them want out by time the weather gets warm. They spend time in county jails for smaller crimes of misdemeanors. Very few individuals choose state prison for greater crimes of felonies.
How's it setup in Canada? Same thing different words?
Nope.
Local PD jails are only holding cells for overnight/weekend stays to handle court appearances or until bail can be set. Almost every prisoner then ends up in a provincial correction jail (if bail is not met or offered) until their court case is completed. Sentences of less that 2 years (aka deuce less) are served in the same correction centres, more than 2 years is in a federal penitentiary.
Canada has local facilities and provincial correction facilities performing the tasks of our county jails.
The US also has federal penetentiaries for the worst crimes with the longest sentences. But, it'd be rare for a relatively short two year sentence to be served in one.
The US system seems more distributed. Each state and county can, to a great extent, decide the conditions under which prisoners live. This is one reason it's very difficult to reform our prison system.
All prisoners suffer. Could you please tell me more about how the system is constructed and the nature of suffering in Canada? Are conditions more consistent? Is there access to actual support in rehabilitation?
Our institutions still have ongoing issues with solitary confinement, lack of mental health supports and lack of training/retraining opportunities.
Conditions tend to be better than what American jails sound like (a guess, as I can only go on what I read about them).
I'm unsure what you mean about how the system is constructed, ie: judicial, penal, etc
In the US the federal penetentiaries housing a minority of prisoners are fairly consistent. But, there's tremendous variation in conditions in different state prisons and different county jails. An urban center may have a "bad" city jail. A neighboring affluent county's jail is where someone may try to go voluntarily. Another neighboring povertous county's jail may be "worse" than the urban for a whole different set of reasons.
If an individual was arrested a bunch of times all over Canada and all over the US, then it seems like the experiences would be significantly more consistent in Canada.