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Rethinking Reform: Prisons in America

“Rethinking Reform” calls attention to the complex prison system in the United States, and examines the repercussions that mass incarceration has on individuals and families. Video: http://www.viddler.com/v/c882514e?secret=50540044 Pics from the film:

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2015: A Year to Remember in False Confessions

By Steve Drizin, Clinical law professor, Northwestern University School of Law 2015 was another momentous year in the world of false confessions. Here are my greatest hits: January 2015 begins tragically as two exonerated false confessors from New York die — Sharrif Wilson, aged 38, and Daniel Gristwood, aged 48.

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Un-making a murderer

January 6, 2016 ASU’s Post-Conviction Clinic works to free the wrongfully convicted Since its release last month, the Netflix documentary series “Making a Murderer” has inspired a host of social media debates, many soaked in outrage aimed at an alleged injustice. The series follows the murder case against Steven Avery

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Articles

Bitten by Experts via The Intercept

An article in the The Intercept takes a detailed look at the flawed science of bite mark analysis and the case of Bill Richards, a California man who was convicted in 1997 of murdering his wife, Pamela. […] As numerous cases like Richards’ have emerged over the years, some odontologists

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The staggering number of wrongful convictions in America

Picture: Susan Mellen is exonerated of murder by Superior Court Judge Mark Arnold in Torrance, Calif. At right, her attorney Deirdre O’Connor. (Brad Graverson/Associated Press) Sam Gross, the editor of the Registry, reflects on wrongful convictions in an Oped: ” We can do better, of course — for misdemeanors, for

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