Did you know that at any time it is estimated that a staggering 5% of all prisoners are wrongfully incarcerated?

I'm Michael Samanjik, executive director of the Innocence Center, and host of the podcast For the Innocent.

We tell the stories of those who have been unjustly imprisoned and the tireless efforts required to bring them

home. Check out season three of For the Innocent to hear our latest episode with Amanda Knox

and more exonerity stories. Follow For The Innocent on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever

podcasts are found.

The most conservative estimates are saying that 5% of our incarcerated population may be wrongfully convicted.

5% of 2 million.

Do the math. That staggering number may surprise you,

but it represents reality for the people our justice system has failed. I'm Michael Samanchik,

executive director of the Innocence Center. You're listening to Season 3 of For the Innocent,

where we share the stories of those accused and wrongfully imprisoned

for crimes they didn't commit.

My name is Amanda Knox.

For a lot of people out there, I'm the girl who was accused of murder.

But for me, I am the girl who went to go study abroad, was wrongly accused and imprisoned for four years, and came home and tried to rebuild my life.

Because the reality is, for 27 years, there's no way that any credible prosecutor or police officer or member of law enforcement

did not know that John Adrian J.J. Velasquez was an innocent man. You'll hear the harrowing tales

of their cases and the trauma they've been forced to endure. My mom died at 3.27 p.m. in emergency surgery. And my dad came to the police station and asked to talk

with me and he told me that my mom had died and it was just like the bottom fell out of my brain.

The day I was arrested was the worst day of my life. The day that I was arrested, I could never forget.

It felt like everything that I thought that I could stand on in the world

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