What was going through your mind when you were in that courtroom?

I didn't do it.

I didn't do it.

Yeah.

That's how I felt about that.

What would you do if your life and freedom were hanging in the balance?

Would you tell the authorities what they wanted to hear?

Would you say you did it, whatever it is for a shot at getting out?

Or would you buckle down?

Stick to your story, no matter what the cost.

They call it the innocent prison of dilemma,

and it plays out somewhere in America every single day.

These are people who've been falsely convicted,

whose truths are suffocated by a system built for caging, not freedom.

And all some of them have to do to maybe see the light of the free world is confess.

Between 2 and 6% of incarcerated people could be innocent,

according to various sources.

That could be up to 75,000 Americans locked up for something they didn't do.

And it's not equal.

A University of Michigan study from 2017,

found that black people were seven times more likely to be wrongfully convicted of murder than whites.

For years, Duy Bazzella insisted that he was one of the unlucky ones.

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