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​We're ahead of the curve here in Texas when it comes to our treatment of the wrongfully convicted. These days, instead of loosing them into a world they barely recognize with empty pockets, we hand them well-deserved golden parachutes worth $160,000 for each year they spent in prison for crimes they didn't commit. We imagine them as newly minted millionaires riding off into the sunset and living out their lives in material comfort, if not true peace. Then we heard Wiley Fountain -- an exoneree who served 16 years in prison -- was living behind a liquor store. Things are better for him now, I hear. But he isn't the only exoneree struggling. Take Entre Nax Karage, for example. Karage, a Cambodian emigree whose father is presumed murdered by the Khmer Rouge, isn't doing so well some seven years after he did a seven-year bid for beating his girlfriend to death. After Karage was officially exonerated, he lived a few lean years until he got his payout in 2007, but it paled next to the multimillion-dollar sums you hear about today. But that was the least of his problems.