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$10 a day for 10,636 days: Backers raise funds for man freed from death row

Jasmine Kabiri Cronkite News//August 2, 2023//[read_meter]

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Barry Jones poses with his family after his release from state prison on June 15, 2023. Now a GoFundMe campaign set up by Andrew Sowards, a retired criminal investigator who was part of Jones’ defense team, had raised $44,635 as of Aug. 2 with a goal of $106,360 – or $10 for each of the 10,636 days Jones spent “wrongfully incarcerated” in Arizona state prisons. (Photo courtesy of Cary Sandman via American Bar Association website)

$10 a day for 10,636 days: Backers raise funds for man freed from death row

Jasmine Kabiri Cronkite News//August 2, 2023//[read_meter]

For Barry Jones, the compensation for spending 28 years on Arizona’s death row before his release in June could come out to about $10 a day. If he’s lucky. Private...

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