It depends on the meaning of “garbage”

If you break the law and something bad happens to you, you don't deserve compensation.

When we do the same for our imprisoned’s families, I’ll listen to them.

One need to look at the ramifications... This seems to be a more serious matter than I jumped to conclusions about... You have a team of lawyers representing a group of people who were treated illegally by the US Government... We live by a set of laws that we make... if we break them, are we not to be held responsible.... hopefully, they will not pay 450K, but "if" the prosecutors don't settle at some figure, they risk going to court and paying perhaps millions to each.... I'm not sure, but this is what I seemed to gather from this article.... No one wants to pay them anything, of course not, but like everything else, the risk should be weighed I would think.