In , a record number of people in the U. In , wrongly convicted people were exonerated. This, of course, leads to an inevitable question. Coming up with an exact number of wrongly convicted people is virtually impossible. It would be necessary to review records from the court and prison systems at the federal, state, and county levels. Then, even with all of the information, we could actually gather, there are still many cases of convictions that never went through a trial.
These cases leave almost no traceable records. The only data that we can quantify with any certainty are the numbers we get from exonerations and death penalty records.
As of January , there have been exonerations nationwide since —which is when record-keeping began. A study was conducted in Ohio where a total of police, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and judges were asked to give their own estimate of how many of the convictions across the United States have been imposed upon innocent people.
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Sarah Love 0. Executive Director Lara Zarowsky discusses how false convictions arise and their considerable negative impact. Extrapolating from the known DNA exonerations in the US since the late s, a conservative estimate is that 1 percent of the US prison population, approximately 20, people, are falsely convicted.
In fact, since the late s there have been as many as exonerations nationwide, according to University of Michigan law professor Samuel Gross, a leading researcher in the field. Many of them float under the radar, Gross says, unlike the highly publicized DNA exonerations. See how the Innocence Project has answered this question. Browse case profiles of DNA exonerations. Help us advocate for the innocent by sharing the latest news from the Innocence Project.
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