The state of Illinois is paying $40 million to the so-called Dixmoor Five - a group of men falsely imprisoned as teenagers for a rape and murder they did not commit.
Peter Neufeld is one of the attorneys for the men. He says the money is beside the point.
"What you have here in Cook County is an epidemic of false confessions by young people, particularly people of color and until they do an investigation you are doomed to repeat those errors in the future and that would be a catastrophe," Neufeld said.
The men were convicted for the 1991 rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl.
The case hinged on false confessions from three of them.
DNA evidence exonerated the Dixmoor Five in 2011.