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The U.S. Needs a Federal Commission on Wrongful Convictions: Paper

The Crime Report

Of the 1,385,258 people in prison for felony convictions in 2019, it is estimated one to five percent—or between 13,853 and 69,263 people—at the end of 2019 were in prison for crimes they did not commit. Mary’s University School of Law. The percentage of people exonerated for crimes they did not commit in 2019 barely exceeds 0.01