This is a Glass Box Media Podcast. Oh, Welcome to human monsters.

Today we look at wrongful convictions, the stolen lives and the parties responsible. the the courts, the jury, the prosecuting attorneys, the community, they're all convinced of your culpability, despite a lack of concrete evidence.

You watch helplessly as you are sentenced to life in prison. and

in some cases you watch helplessly as you are sentenced to life in prison. This happens frequently and in some cases people die in prison

whether due to old age, the administration of the death penalty, or becoming a casualty of the violence in Deemic prison culture,

many lives have been lost while the real criminals walked the streets enjoying their freedom.

Sometimes justice is sacrificed to ensure conviction so that the failures of law enforcement

agencies are kept under wraps

and its most prominent figures can save face.

Such a state of affairs is likely when the legal system is staffed in part. of convictions are eyewitness misidentification,

unvalidated forensic science, false confessions,

police misconduct, and so-called,

quote, snitch testimony.

Some statistics on wrongful convictions.

One in 25 people waiting on death row are innocent.

The Innocence Project, an organization that advocates legally for the

exoneration of wrongfully convicted persons, reports that 2 to 5 percent of incarcerated persons are innocent.

That means that out of the 2 million inmates in the United States,

approximately 40,000 have been wrongfully imprisoned.

20% of the 149 people who were falsely accused of crimes in 2005

were exonerated due to false confessions.

40% of the 149 wrongful convictions in 2005

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