CRANSTON, R.I. (WPRI) — A man who confessed to the 1989 murder of a Warwick woman was released from prison on Wednesday.

Todd Barry, 67, was originally sentenced to 30 years after he admitted in 2002 to killing Victoria Cushman.

Barry shaved more than eight years off his sentence for good behavior, according to the Rhode Island Department of Corrections. He accrued 2,550 days of statutory good time, 476 days of industrial time and 46 days of program time.

Scott Hornoff, a former Warwick police officer, was wrongfully convicted of the murder in 1996 and received a life sentence. He spent more than six years in prison until Barry confessed.

Since then, Hornoff has been a fierce advocate of compensating exonerees for their time spent behind bars. He worked with Rhode Island Rep. Patricia Serpa on a state law that was enacted in 2021 .

The law states the court will “grant an award of $50,000 for each year served in a correctional facility” for those who were wrongfully convicted.

The family of Victoria Cushman declined an interview request from 12 News.

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