Advocating for the Wrongly Convicted... "Community Accountability Addressing Harm, Hurt and Healing for Safer Communities pt 1

Apr 9 2022 • 1 hr 54 mins

There has been 3,050 Exonerations since 1989.....that's more than 26,700 years lost, of innocent people going to prison.

The National Registry of Exonerations publish a report September 2020, called "Government Misconduct and Convicting the Innocent" The Role of Prosecutors, Police and other law enforcement... This a report about the role of official misconduct in the conviction of innocent people.

In 54% of exonerations, official misconduct contributed to the false convictions;

usually more than one type of misconduct. Overall, male exonerees and Black

exonerees were modestly more likely to experience misconduct (with some larger

differences by race for a few particular crimes).

30% of exonerations include misconduct by prosecutors, 35% misconduct by

police, 3% by forensic analysts, and 2% by child welfare workers. 12

The overall rate of misconduct varies by crime, from 72% in murder cases to 32% for most non-violent crimes.

This week on Turning A Moment Into A Movement……we will discuss Advocating for the Wrongly Convicted, "Community Accountability Addressing Harm, Hurt and Healing for Safer Communities pt 1"..... with Dion RiggenEl: Justice and Prison Reform Advocate, Co founder of Free People Free People and Prison Project organization and Guest panelist; Lisa Riley of Breaking Silence.

....on The Justice for Gerard Movement Facebook, YouTube and Twitter pages, April 6, 2022 6pm.

So JOIN ....Jay Love from The Justice for Gerard Movement, along with.....

Attorney Hugo Mack, of H Mack Law, www.hmacklaw.com

Justice Advocates :

-Alexandria Hughes Behavioral Therapist,

Advisory Council for Mi Rep Kyra H Bolden,

Justice Advocate, MI Liberation,

Accountability for Dearborn

-Trischè Duckworth:

Founder & Executive Director of Survivors Speak,

Founder & Executive Director of Value Black Lives LLC, Social Worker, Justice Advocate

-Rev Tia Littlejohn: Founder of the Choice Zone, Doctoral Student,