ARTICLE: Innocents in Prison
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Innocents in Prison
by Stuart Taylor Jr. of National Journal
08.20.08
As recently as 20 years ago, it was extraordinarily rare for a convicted prisoner to establish his or her innocence conclusively enough to get public attention. That changed with breakthroughs in DNA science.
The 205th DNA exoneration since 1989 was recorded earlier this month by the Innocence Project, a group of crack defense lawyers who have made such cases their mission. The exonerated prisoners?including 15 who had been sentenced to death?have been found innocent by courts, prosecutors, or governors based on post-conviction DNA testing.
But America has been too slow to appreciate that the DNA exonerations, and other evidence suggests that many thousands of other wrongly convicted people are rotting in prisons and jails around the country.
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The said part about the innocence in prison is that all of the cases of the innocent can not use DNA to exonerate them. There are to many judges that have the old south mentality to even be setting on the bench. Their judgment of certain individuals are corrupt before they put on the robe, and most of the corruption was done through childhood by the ignorance of their family members. Racism plays a strong part of most of the judges , prosecutors, and public defenders decisions in the majority of cases, but what they don't realize is that they are the ones that are committing crimes and yet they still go home to their families as if this is how life is suppose to be.
