Innocence Project’s Post

Did you know about 73% of women exonerated in the last three decades were wrongfully convicted of crimes that never took place at all? On the last day of #WomensHistoryMonth, read more about women and incarceration in the U.S.:

Cole Bryant

"Freelance Video Editor | Storyteller | Entrepreneur | Elevating Content Through Creative Vision"

2w

Very informative

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Sudi Farokhnia

Director of Operational Risk & Resiliency at Pacific Life, Co-founder IADC

2w

Thanks for sharing

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Barry Edwards

Researcher | Textbook Author | Autism Parent | Interested in Scientific Analysis of Trial Errors for Appeals and Post-Conviction Proceedings

2w

This statistic is confusing to me. I would think that exoneration only happens when a crime has not been committed. Is the point that only 27% of women exonerated were convicted of crimes that actually took place, but were committed by someone else and the woman convicted was falsely identified?

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Esther Pino

Mother to INNOCENT Nurse, Mother of 5 Sentenced to 20 Years. Join Our Fight for Justice!

2w

Do you also know that Hispanic woman are the one given the longest sentence.

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Christy Kelly, PhD

Alignment & Impact Strategist. Organizational Development Expert. Ethnoherbalist. Ontological Coach. Founder. Defying all types of gravity—still.

2w

Never. Took. Place. At. All. Let that sink in.

This is why I wrote my legal thriller, Unshackled- about moms in prison and the importance of reuniting them with their children.

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Glenn Castro

Advocating for Lewis Dickerson 49 years in prison honorably discharge veteran with no prior criminal history Serving life without parole 76 years old

2w

Thanks for sharing

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Gayle Gutekunst

Criminal and civil trial and post-conviction attorney in California.

2w

Be prepared for an onslaught of appellate decision-making now that some states are interpreting their laws to punish women who have had miscarriages or problematic pre-term births. (Alabama, CA, OK, etc.) In one egregious recent example, a woman naturally miscarried a very early pregnancy at home and disposed of the results herself, not knowing what else to do. They want to charge her with "abusing a corpse." (This was not a viable pregnancy.). The war on women is real.

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