Lee Clark says he has struggled to get by since being released from prison in 2022 after being wrongfully convicted of a Floyd County murder more than two decades ago.
At 45, Clark is self-conscious about the skills he lacks for his age as he labors at a job doing drum maintenance at Pirelli Tire, making just over minimum wage.
But a proposal for the state to compensate Clark for the long-ago legal errors that sent him away to prison for half his life is among the handful for such measures piling up right now in Senate Appropriations. Thursday is the last day for these wrongful conviction compensation proposals to make it out of committee.
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