Wrongfully convicted prisoners will no longer have to pay for their keep in jail

THE Home Office has done a swift U-turn over making wrongfully convicted prisoners pay for their living costs while in jail.
It comes after Andrew Malkinson was released from prison recently after serving 17 years in prison for a rape he did not commit.
Home Office policy was that the cost of wrongly convicted prisoners’ food and lodging while in jail be deducted from any compensation prisoners are subsequently paid.
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