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Podcast: Turning A Moment Into A Movement
Episode: Advocating for the Wrongly Convicted... "Community Accountability Addressing Harm, Hurt and Healing for Safer Communities pt 1
Description: There has been 3,050 Exonerations since 1989.....that's more than 26,700 years lost, of innocent people going to prison.
The National Registry of Exonerations publish a report September 2020, called "Government Misconduct and Convicting the Innocent" The Role of Prosecutors, Police and other law enforcement... This a report about the role of official misconduct in the conviction of innocent people.
In 54% of exonerations, official misconduct contributed to the false convictions;
usually more than one type of misconduct. Overall, male exonerees and Black
exonerees were modestly more likely to experience misconduct (with some larger
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