I'm not sure what sort of compensation people who have been let out of jail after being wrongly imprisoned for decades should get—I'm inclined to give them a magic credit card that pays all their bills for life, but then I've always been a bleeding heart.

I'm certain, however, that giving them nothing is a moral abomination.

After Innocence probably won't shock you, because if you've been paying attention at all you've already concluded that this country's criminal justice system is completely, essentially broken. But it's absolutely worth seeing, if only to gain some perspective of what these lives are like; in a very real sense regaining freedom is only where their troubles begin.

While you're waiting for the movie to arrive from Netflix, the Innocence Project has profiles of some of their cases, while exonerate.org has your dose of unhappy statistics.