The U.S. Needs a Federal Commission on Wrongful Convictions: Paper
The Crime Report
OCTOBER 6, 2021
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. The first recorded wrongful conviction case occurred in 1812 in Vermont and involved two brothers falsely accused and convicted of murder.
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