psych wrote:
In the UK, when people are released after wrongful imprisonment, the govt. sends them a bill for board and lodging!
Im not joking, after a long stretch the figures can get very high.
Yes I have heard of that and I think it is deeply wrong. A person who is in prison wrongly has not made a contract to be fed and housed in the prison, UK contract law says that you have to freely enter into a contract for it to be valid. So as the "contract" was made under duress then it is void !
I think that if a bank robber was to say that he got the bank staff to hand over £ 10000000 freely in exchange for a tiny little note then it would not wash with the court as a valid contract. The fact that the bank staff were being held at gun point means that they were acting under duress when they agree to swap the money for the note.
Also if the wrongly convicted should be billed for their prison time, why not extend it to those who were rightfully placed in jail ! It is a stupid idea but just a slightly less stupid idea than billing the wrongfully jailed person.
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