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A record number of previously convicted people were exonerated in 2015.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/exonerations-2015_us_56ac0374e4b00b033aaf3da9
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/exonerations-2015_us_56ac0374e4b00b033aaf3da9
I have always maintained that about 5 to 8% of the prison population is innocent. Nobody really knows the exact number, but from my years in prison and reading transcripts while working in the law library, 5 to 8% seems to be a reasonable number. One in 12 or one in 20 innocent inmates is a reasonable figure and one I am comfortable with.
The 5% estimate begins to approach 8% as there are now so many inmates serving time for sex crimes; sex crimes have a higher false incarceration rate since very little evidence is needed to convict a person of a sex offense.
Fifteen percent, one in six inmates, is too high and two or three percent is too low.
But even at 5%, that is one in every 20 inmates who are innocent and should not be there. As a society, we can do better than that.
According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2,220,300 adults were incarcerated in US federal and state prisons, and county jails in 2013. Using my 5% figure---the lower number---that is still 111,000 innocent men and women locked up for a crime they did not commit.
Think about that----111,000 innocent people in prison. It is disgusting that we as a society cannot do better to protect the innocent.
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