UK government will not repay some ‘bed and board’ deductions to wrongfully imprisoned

Miscarriage of justice victims say policy that takes money from their compensation payouts is additional punishment

A government minister has ruled out reimbursing some victims of miscarriages of justice after living expenses for the time they spent in prison were deducted from their compensation payments.

Last year, the then justice secretary, Alex Chalk, scrapped the policy of making deductions from all future payouts after the case of Andrew Malkinson, who was wrongfully imprisoned for 17 years.

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