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Picture: Vanessa Gathers, 58, with Ken Thompson, the Brooklyn district attorney, after her manslaughter conviction was vacated on Tuesday. Credit Andrew Kelly for The New York Times         By SARAH MASLIN NIR, New York Times – FEB. 23, 2016 In a gray suit, her short hair neatly curled, Vanessa Gathers sat in State Supreme Court in […]

FACT: On average, 3 convicted people are now exonerated of their crimes every week. Travis Dove for The New York Times In 2015, 149 people convicted of crimes large and small — from capital murder to burglary — were exonerated. It is the highest yearly total since this grim form of record-keeping began, in 1989.

Picture: Drayton Witt pauses for a moment at his home Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2016, in Surprise, Arizona An Arizona judge in 2012 dismissed a murder charge against Witt, after he spent 10 years in prison, after the county medical examiner said developments in the understanding of shaken baby syndrome and some of the conditions that

Did you know that most 2015 exonerees who falsely confessed to murder were kids, mentally disabled or both? See full chart: http://bit.ly/1SMHdFg #falseconfession

EXONERATIONS IN 2015 The National Registry of Exonerations, February 3, 2016 2015 had the most exonerations with false confessions & guilty pleas of any year in history.  Read the full report here: http://bit.ly/1SkFxRO #wrongfulconvictions

Feel the immeasurable pain and suffering of 3 men who were wrongfully convicted via Dateline NBC. “It’s like I’m swimming against the current.”- Carlos Perez “And then it takes you 15 years or better to prove your innocence.” -Devon Ayers Dateline Video:  Voices of the Exonerated

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that those sentenced as teenagers to mandatory life imprisonment for murder must have a chance to argue that they should be released from prison. The ruling expanded the court’s 2012 decision that struck down mandatory life terms without parole for juveniles and said it must be applied retroactively to what

“One of the central themes of the Netflix NFLX -3.13% documentary Making a Murderer was the imbalance of resources between the prosecution in the Steven Avery case, and Avery’s own defense team. But with a few brief exceptions, there wasn’t much attempt to actually examine it in terms of dollars and cents. The numbers do

“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: