{"id":49010,"date":"2016-02-05T07:45:41","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T14:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=49010"},"modified":"2016-02-09T09:21:40","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T16:21:40","slug":"what-a-record-high-number-of-exonerations-says-about-the-us-justice-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2016\/02\/05\/what-a-record-high-number-of-exonerations-says-about-the-us-justice-system\/","title":{"rendered":"What A Record-High Number of Exonerations Says About the US Justice System"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia801503.us.archive.org\/29\/items\/uprising_2016_02_05\/Samuel_Gross_2016_02_05.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia601503.us.archive.org\/29\/items\/uprising_2016_02_05\/uprising_2016_02_05.mp3\">Listen to the full show <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p><em>GUEST: <strong>Samuel R. Gross<\/strong>, the Thomas and Mabel Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. He is also the editor of the university&#8217;s National Registry of Exonerations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nearly 150 people were exonerated for crimes they were convicted of throughout the United States last year. That number is a record high, as per the National Registry of Exonerations. Even more shocking, the average sentence that those exonerees served before being freed, was 14 and a half years. <\/p>\n<p>Imagine being locked up for nearly a decade and a half of your life for a crime you did not commit. Most of us cannot imagine that. Most of us don&#8217;t realize that the US justice system is imprisoning people wrongfully in such high numbers. <\/p>\n<p>In fact, the rate of exonerations per year is actually going up!<\/p>\n<p>Download the latest Registry of Exonerations for 2015 here: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.umich.edu\/special\/exoneration\/Documents\/Exonerations_in_2015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.law.umich.edu\/special\/exoneration\/Documents\/Exonerations_in_2015.pdf<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUEST: Samuel R. Gross, the Thomas and Mabel Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. He is also the editor of the university&#8217;s National Registry of Exonerations. Nearly 150 people were exonerated for crimes they were convicted of throughout the United States last year. That number is a record high, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49010"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49039,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49010\/revisions\/49039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}