Thirty-three states have laws meant to compensate wrongly-convicted people after they win release from prison. But in many states, like Massachusetts, complicated laws mean it can take months or even years for those released from prison to get any help or money to restart their lives.
Fred Clay had just turned 16 when Boston police arrested him for the fatal shooting of a taxi driver in 1979.
He was charged with murder which was based on a routine practice back then: sharpening the fuzzy memory of a witness through hypnosis.
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