Wrongful convictions
21,587 drug cases headed for dismissal after Mass. chemist falsified evidence for years
The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts said it will be the largest dismissal of wrongful convictions as a result of one case in U.S. history.
Amanda Knox: Why Do Innocent Women Confess to Crimes They Didn’t Commit?
Very little is known about how different genders experience criminal investigations differently—but is it time for this to change?
What It's Like to Be Wrongfully Convicted of Murder
Ron Dalton spent about a decade in prison before going to court in shackles and walking out a free man.
Was an Innocent Man Sent to Prison for Killing a Cop 46 Years Ago?
Cleve Heidelberg says his only mistake on a fateful night in 1970 was lending his car to a cop killer. Forty-six years later, he's still in prison.
How Canada’s Record of Wrongful Imprisonment Has Changed Since ‘Wheat Kings’
The Tragically Hip song highlighted the tragic story of David Milgaard, but has much changed since he went free?
What It's Like to Get Exonerated of Murder After 21 Years in Prison
Relief, gratitude, paranoia, and keeping a butcher's knife under your pillow.
When Your Job Is to Help Free a Wrongfully Convicted Murderer
Inside an investigator's hunt for a key witness that could prove someone innocent.
What It's Like to Be Falsely Branded a Satanic Child Molester
I spoke to four lesbians who got railroaded into prison during a national panic spiked with homophobia.
What Life Is Like After 46 Years on Death Row
Iwao Hakamada spent 46 years on death row for a crime he didn't commit. After his release in 2014, at age 78, director Kim Sungwoong documented his reintroduction to the outside.
What Happens When the Government Takes 20 Years of Your Life
A man who was wrongfully convicted of sexual assault reflects on the suicide of a fellow exoneree and how the system fails people like them.
How a Broken System Kept an Innocent Man Behind Bars for 25 Years
An intellectually-disabled man who was already on crutches from a previous shooting somehow got fingered for a woman's murder. Then he was failed by his own lawyers and shady prosecutors.
An Alabama Man's Long, Nightmarish Quest for a New Murder Trial
Bill Kuenzel was convicted of murder in 1988 despite witnesses saying his co-worker was at the scene of the crime. 27 years later, will he get another hearing?