Massachusetts has agreed to pay an approximately $14 million settlement to refund the fees of thousands of people wrongly convicted of drug crimes. The state will pay back probation and victim-witness fees, fines, drug analyses, court costs, GPS monitoring, restitution and other costs for some 31,000 people, CNN reported Thursday. The settlement, if approved by a judge, could return between $150 to several thousands of dollars to those impacted. https://t.co/EUsTyCDpR0 — CNN (@CNN) June 3, 2022The settlement agreement was filed Thursday to compensate for the people who were involved in a case where two former lab chemists tampered with drug samples, CNN reported. ACLU of Massachusetts Legal Director Matthew Segal said returning the money to the wrongfully-convicted people does not account for the prison time they served, CNN reported.

Source: CNN June 03, 2022 15:22 UTC