{"id":267,"date":"2007-08-18T08:58:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-18T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2007\/08\/18\/125-years-that-would-get-you-out-by-february-of-2020\/"},"modified":"2007-08-18T08:58:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-18T14:58:00","slug":"125-years-that-would-get-you-out-by-february-of-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2007\/08\/18\/125-years-that-would-get-you-out-by-february-of-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"12.5 years? that would get you out by february of 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/408-00.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5100169582016403330\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/409-00.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><em>sure, imprisoning innocent people is not &#8220;ideal,&#8221; but isn&#8217;t the greater tragedy that we&#8217;re finding out about it? <\/em><br \/>&#8211; stephen colbert<\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">with classes starting soon, crim instructors might be interested in showing a video clip of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/motherload\/?lnk=v&amp;ml_video=91538\">stephen colbert&#8217;s interview with jerry miller<\/a>. mr. miller was the 200th person exonerated by the group mr. colbert calls &#8220;<em>the murder huggers&#8221;<\/em> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.innocenceproject.org\/\">the innocence project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">the project put together a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.innocenceproject.org\/Images\/751\/ip_200.pdf\">special report<\/a> to commemorate their first 200 exonerations. among the summary statistics:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">they served an average of 12.5 years in prison<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">88 percent were convicted of sexual assault and 28 percent were convicted of murder<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">77 percent were convicted, at least in part, on eyewitness identification<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">62 percent were african american<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">60 percent had spent at least a third of their life in prison or on parole when exonerated<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">45 percent have been compensated financially for their wrongful convictions<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">and, in a classic catch-22, many were denied parole because they refused to accept responsibility for crimes they did not commit<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\">for related resources, you might check out the project&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/innocenceproject\">youtube page<\/a> for some good first-person accounts and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.northwestern.edu\/wrongfulconvictions\/\">center on wrongful convictions<\/a> at northwestern law.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">*the exoneration total has now climbed to 205.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>sure, imprisoning innocent people is not &#8220;ideal,&#8221; but isn&#8217;t the greater tragedy that we&#8217;re finding out about it? &#8211; stephen colbert with classes starting soon, crim instructors might be interested in showing a video clip of stephen colbert&#8217;s interview with jerry miller. mr. miller was the 200th person exonerated by the group mr. colbert calls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}