All three U.S. attorneys for Georgia and the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council announced Friday the creation of what they called the largest crime victim assistance award in history—$110 million.

The money is to come from restitution payments by those convicted of crimes and be awarded as grants to fund victim-assistance programs across the state and to help compensate victims for crime-related losses, the attorneys said in a news release Friday.

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