>>http://www.kansascity.com/2013/01/08/4000269/states-top-court-overturns-murder.html
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>>..some background
>>http://justicedenied.org/woodworth.htm
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>I am all for punishing the guilty (short of capital punishment) but these wrongful convictions drive me nuts. It says the conviction was overturned because evidence was withheld from his attorneys. Uh, they are not supposed to do that. There have been a number of cases here in Illinois where it was pretty clear the prosecution was more interested in conviction rates than justice being done. In some of the cases the accused was convicted and sentenced to death row. Many of the convictions were later overturned on DNA evidence, which was in its infancy at the time of their trial. They are being released at a steady rate. But how do you give them back the 10-20 years they spent in prison?

ha - well you don't. I know that some states have now passed laws so that there is only a certain amount of $ they can get when this happens. I followed this case from the early 1990's and even on the justicedenied.org website there is a lot of things that they left out - the whole case was a farce from the get-go and if you know all the details it would make you sick to your stomach.
These things bother me - but I think what gets me more upset these days is all these 'for profit" prisons that are popping up all over the place. I think there is a HUGE problem when locking up people = profit for other people. Talk about a corruption magnate ...geeze. There was a huge article about this in Time magazine a while back - which I could find a link to that article.

http://www.americanbar.org/publications/human_rights_magazine_home/human_rights_vol38_2011/human_rights_summer11/prisons_for_profit_incarceration_for_sale.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/26/opinion/blow-plantations-prisons-and-profits.html?_r=0