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Wrongful Conviction Isn’t Extraordinary in Connecticut. It’s Normalnew

How much do we really know about our prisons — about the history of incarceration and its role in a free society? When we talk about the criminal justice system, what kind of justice do we mean?
New Haven Advocate  |  Caleb Smith  |  03-23-2010  |  Crime & Justice

How Many Innocent People Has Harris County, Texas, Sent to Prison?new

Texas has experienced 34 DNA exonerations -- more than any other state -- and "these compounding exonerations," as State Senator Rodney Ellis says, "are clear and convincing evidence that our criminal justice system is broken."
Houston Press  |  Randall Patterson  |  10-15-2008  |  Crime & Justice

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