In Louisiana, 17 years of FALSE IMPRISONMENT worth only 150k

Wrongly convicted man seeks $150,000

BATON ROUGE, La. A former Louisiana prisoner who served time on a wrongful conviction has become the first to apply for money under a new state law for the years he spent behind bars.
Gene Bibbins of Baton Rouge is asking a state district judge to award him 150-thousand dollars, the maximum cash award the law allows.

Bibbins spent 17 years at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola on rape and burglary convictions.

A jury convicted Bibbins of aggravated rape and aggravated burglary in 1987. He received a life sentence.

In 2002, D-N-A testing on evidence found that Bibbins was not the person who raped the 13-year-old victim or burglarized the apartment where she was staying. D-N-A testing did not exist at the time of the trial.