"mogga" <di@NOSPAMPLEASEmogga.com> wrote in message 
news:ju01s2hhlh5u7u72t9g37crcsfde14dfdl@4ax.com...
> On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:49:55 GMT, Mike_B <usenet@localhosts.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > In message <1170099026.455763.186550@p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com>,
> > "international_mens_organisation@internationalmensorganisation.cjb.net"
> > <imo@internationalmensorganisation.cjb.net> writes
> > > Court rules innocent  prisoners have to pay board and lodgings on
> > > compensa
> > 
> > I remember my sense of amazement when I first read about this some time
> > ago. That someone should be wrongly deprived of their liberty, kept
> > imprisoned against their will and then be charged for the board and
> > lodgings is still one of the most and blatantly unfair systems I have
> > ever heard of. Lets hope the Lords have sense about them.
> 
> But the sensible thing would be to charge the guilty ones too?

I don't find the original judgment so unreasonable. See it at
http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2004/1035.html
(at least, I assume that's the one)

I do think that the compensation should be generous, though. It's a question 
of just how generous. Nothing can really compensate for the wasted years. 
Prison is an unpleasant place to be, whether you are innocent or guilty and 
there are far too many people who tell us, glibly, that it is a holiday camp 
and that if you have TV and a playstation, you lack for nothing.

"During his period of 11 years and 43 days of custody, which encompassed the 
whole of his twenties, his young daughter died from cot death, his marriage 
came to an end by divorce and he missed the formative years of his son's 
development. He found it difficult to deal with his imprisonment, and 
repeatedly protested his innocence."