Two new books take a deeply troubling look at the wrongly convicted in our prisons, many languishing for decades. “Framed” by John Grisham and Jim McCloskey, and “The Sing Sing Files” by Dan Slepian examine in painful detail the failure of our criminal justice system to exonerate the innocent.
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Slepian cites figures suggesting 100,000 more innocents remain among approximately 2 million people locked away in American jails and prisons.As the authors explain, we came to this sorry state through a combination of factors: Pressure to close cases, police and prosecutorial neglect, outright fabrications of evidence, confirmation bias and the tendency to disregard information that does not fit our emerging theory. Bogus “experts” swayed juries. Jurors gave in to pressure from other jurors.
But most of the guilt for a failed system must be ours, Grisham writes. “If we as a society had the political gumption to change unfair laws, practices and procedures, we could avoid virtually all wrongful convictions.”For now, emerging as heroes are defense lawyers who work for free, sometimes for years, to secure justice for those lacking any resources to hire lawyers to pursue their cases.
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