If I saw an article with the title

UK man has $80,000 room and board bill from prison after being found not guilty of murder.

I'd be looking to see if it was from the onion.

Same thing for Germany.

Someone is currently suing the Bavarian government for 750,000€ for 13 years of wrong imprisonment (he only received 400,000€ in damages, or 75€ per day).

Now the government is demanding 100,000€ back - 50,000€ for food and accomodation and 50,000€ for the total wage he received from mandatory prison labor.

I've lived in the UK my whole life and I've never heard of this. I'm going to have to ask for a source because it really does sound like an urban myth.

Send them an invoice for your consulting services. Or, sue for kidnapping.

The US does this too!

Washington may be the most expensive state to be behind bars, as it charges up to $100 per day just for room and board, according to Lauren-Brooke Eisen, senior counsel at New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice. Maine, which charges around $80 per day, may be the second most expensive, she added, but it’s not clear because many states don’t report the exact amounts. “Most states don’t provide the exact amount; they call for ‘full cost of incarceration’ or ‘a reasonable amount,'” Eisen told Truthdig. “In reality, these states which don’t provide real numbers may demand the steepest already very difficult for people with a criminal record to get a job, even if they committed a nonviolent crime, so steep fees can add to their struggles,” she said.

So you had no right to be there but definitely didn't have the right to not be there