What are you now going to do with your life but more importantly, who will be willing to hire you based on your history even tho it was false imprisonment?
17 years of lack of proper job training and experience, all he'll likely qualify for is flipping burgers or basic minimum wage jobs......
Don't know how old he is now, but if he was me, I would have one hell of a lot of hatred built up within me towards the judicial system. 17 years unfairly taken from me, the only thing I would probably think of is revenge.........
In some situations like this, a state legislature will vote a private restitution bill.
It would take a saint to come out of this with equanimity.
Hell is a innocent man in prison.