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More Prisoners Were Found Innocent in 2014 Than Ever Before, And We're Barely Even Looking
The University of Michigan's National Registry of Exonerations announced in a report released Tuesday that a record 125 people across the United States were in 2014 exonerated of crimes they were falsely convicted of, beating 2013's 91 people. Much of the increase came from Texas, where investigators freed 33 people falsely convicted of drug offenses in Harris County (Houston). Other people were exonerated thanks to increased use of " prosecutorial Conviction Integrity Units,"...
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