BOSTON —

Edward Wright spent 41 years in prison for a 1984 murder in Springfield that he did not commit.

Under Massachusetts law, the most he or anyone else wrongfully convicted could hope to receive from the state is $1 million.

"It means that each day that he spent in a prison cell away from his loved ones is worth $66 to this Commonwealth," said Radha Natarajan, executive director of the New England Innocence Project. "And we should be appalled by that."

Natarajan was at Wrongful Conviction Day at the State House, where she and others spoke in support of reforms that would increase compensation for individuals wrongfully convicted of crimes.

Currently, Massachusetts law caps compensation at $1 million for those wrongfully convicted of a felony.

Wright was freed earlier this year a

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