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Some Parting Gift

Reason Staff | 2.15.2008 2:06 AM

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David Sanders spent eight months in prison on child molestation charges before another man confessed to the crime. Sanders was freed from prison, but the city of Milwaukee paid him just $5,000 and legal fees as compensation for wrongly imprisoning him.

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