Originally Posted By: helenwheels
Originally Posted By: alicecooper
Kinda off topic but still related the DOJ itself admits about 10% of those incarcerated in America are innocent.


A statistic that should send a chill down the spine of any American citizen.

Think about it. Based on our current prison population thats about 220,000 people. ~Shudders~


I thought you were one of the fact-checkers around here. Several searches did not show the Justice Dept. coming up with any percentage of innocent people in prison. According to the Innocence Project it's between 2.3 and 5% (which is still bad) who are innocent. In 2014 Vice magazine estimated about a maximum of 120,000, which is a little more than 5%. Again, still bad, but not as bad as 10%.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:j0S_ZGoWEskJ:www.innocenceproject.org/contact/+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

https://news.vice.com/article/why-are-there-up-to-120000-innocent-people-in-us-prisons