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I wonder if innocent men are rotting away in jail that have given up themselves and been given up on. They know they are innocent but I doubt 'the system' will
by throwawayaway 11y ago
I wonder if innocent men are rotting away in jail that have given up themselves and been given up on. They know they are innocent but I doubt 'the system' will swoop down and fight for them.
- smeyer 11y agoI'm not sure if you are being rhetorical, but in case you aren't, such people most definitely exist.
- throwawayaway 11y agoRhetorical, hard to prove definitely. I wonder will we see more posthumous exhonorations of people that got the death penalty out of this.
- contingencies 11y agoJust last month there was an exhibition in Paris at the excellent Jeau de Paume gallery featuring a video exploring this phenomenon in the US by artist Taryn Simon, who actually tracked down numerous people who had been falsely imprisoned for her 2003 project The Innocents. More info at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taryn_Simon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taryn_Simon and https://books.google.com/books?id=RRoiDl9rJtoC&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:9781884167188&hl=en&sa=X&ei=qhZqVe_gD4_GogT12IDgBQ&ved=0CB4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=RRoiDl9rJtoC&printsec=fron...
- throwawayaway 11y agoInteresting! I suppose there's a perverse incentive for the system not to track the falsely imprisoned down. They have a right to sue for false imprisonment.