Jury awards $2.3 million man for wrongful parole revocation 
Published: December 14, 2011
Tags: parole, Washington D.C., wrongful imprisonment
A Washington D.C. federal jury has awarded a man $2.3 million in damages for the 10 years he spent in prison after his parole was wrongfully revoked.
DA settles jailed witness suit
Published: November 7, 2011
Tags: Pennsylvania, police, witness, wrongful imprisonment
The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office will pay $255,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a woman who said she was jailed for weeks after a murder trial she was to testify at was postponed.
City and detective to pay $2.8 million in wrongful imprisonment
Published: October 19, 2011
Tags: Michigan, wrongful imprisonment
The city of Warren, Mich. and one of its detectives have agreed to pay a $2.8-million lawsuit settlement to a man who spent 12 years in prison before being acquitted at retrial of raping his ex-girlfriend.
City to pay $1.25 million in wrongful conviction case
Published: October 5, 2011
Tags: coercion, Illinois, police brutality, wrongful conviction, wrongful imprisonment
Chicago will pay $1.25 million to compensate a man who spent 12 years in prison for a rape and murder he did not commit after allegedly being beaten and coerced into a false confession by detectives working under Jon Burge.
Wrongly imprisoned man entitled to $6.2M
Published: May 5, 2011
Tags: civil rights, DNA evidence, wrongful imprisonment
A local government could be liable for wrongfully imprisonment based on a “pattern or practice” of constitutional violations, Maryland’s highest court has ruled in affirming a $6.2 million jury verdict.
Man who spent 29 years in prison awarded a $2.5 million settlement
Published: April 27, 2011
Tags: Ohio, wrongful conviction, wrongful imprisonment
A Cleveland, Ohio man who spent 29 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit has been awarded a $2.5 million settlement from the state.
Suit claims police acquired confession by torture
By:
Associated Press
Published: December 13, 2010
Tags: civil rights, coercion, confession, DNA, Illinois, police, wrongful imprisonment
A former northern Illinois resident has filed a federal lawsuit against the police officers he says coerced him into wrongfully confessing to the murder of his daughter and her friend.
Man wins $18 million wrongful imprisonment verdict
By:
Tony Ogden
Published: October 21, 2010
Tags: DNA, New York, wrongful imprisonment
A Bronx man who was imprisoned for more than two decades on a rape conviction before being cleared by DNA evidence has been awarded $18.5 million by a jury.
State to pay $500,000 to wrongfully convicted man
By:
Associated Press
Published: October 8, 2010
Tags: Nebraska, wrongful imprisonment
The state of Nebraska has agreed to pay $500,000 to one of the six people wrongfully imprisoned for a 1985 Beatrice murder as part of a settlement.
City will pay seven people jailed after street theater protest
By:
Tony Ogden
Published: August 24, 2010
Tags: civil rights, Minnesota, protest, wrongful imprisonment
The Minneapolis, Minn. city attorney’s office has decided to pay $165,000 to settle a federal lawsuit seven people filed after they were arrested and jailed for two days for dressing up like zombies in downtown Minneapolis in 2006 to protest “mindless consumerism.”
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