I'm Lauren Brad Pacheco, and I'm back for a new season of wrongful conviction.

This season, we're confronting one of the greatest failures in our justice system.

When innocent people are sent to prison, almost no one is ever held accountable.

I have no clue to what the hell happened, not involved in any kind of way.

How am I supposed to serve a sentence for something that I didn't do?

An estimated 5% of people behind bars are innocent. That's more than 100,000 lives stolen.

They don't need concrete evidence to find you guilty here. It's like they don't take a human life serious, you know.

These aren't statistics. They're real people, stripped of their freedom, families, and futures by a system that

promises innocent until proven guilty, but far too often, delivers the opposite.

It was physically impossible.

Arnold Schwarzenegger couldn't throw a dead body 45 feet.

I also knew I was innocent based on the blood types.

We've known for decades why it happens. I witness misidentification, coerced confessions,

junk science, official misconduct, and yet it keeps happening with almost no consequences for those

responsible. Qualified immunity is a huge issue. I don't see how prosecutors or police can ever really be

held accountable so long as there's this immunity. So the question remains, how do we stop it?

They say someday everybody's going to be judged by God. I wonder, are they going to step up and say,

you know what, I did something wrong back then? This season, we're asking what real accountability looks like for the wrongfully convicted

and for the people fighting to bring them home.

My daughters, they have to grow up without me.

Hopefully one day I'll be home and we can move forward, you know?

The new season of wrongful conviction with Lauren Bright Pacheco drops November 13th.

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