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Wrongfully imprisoned Ohioans got settlements that amounted to one of the highest totals in the country when compared to other states, according to a national analysis.
Ohio has paid nearly $51 million in compensation to those exonerated for crimes since 1989, making it the third-highest payer of exonerees in the country, behind only New York and Texas.
The legal funding firm High Rise Financial used the data from The National Registry of Exonerations, a research project from the University of California Irvine’s Newkirk Center for Science & Society, the University of Michigan Law School, and the Michigan State University College of Law.
When calculated per capita using the population of the state, Ohio came in sixth overall in cost to taxpayers. According to the analysis, each Ohioan paid about $4.29 in compensation, compared with Michigan’s $4.77, Texas’ $5.32, Maryland’s $5.98, Connecticut’s $14.04, and New York’s $15.97 per person.