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Following a long period of wrongful imprisonment case after wrongful imprisonment case, the federal government has created a federal investigative unit for wrongful convictions.

A New York man who spent 9 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, watching every relationship he held dear fall to pieces, has finally gotten the legal recognition that he was falsely imprisoned.

A recent case of wrongful imprisonment up in Canada highlights just how serious and permanently life-altering a mistake it can be.

The case of the Central Park 5 rose to fame as a shining example of police manhandling a case and evidence, and going out of their way to pin a conviction on innocent individuals. Since then, there have been quite a large number of high-profile wrongful conviction cases, but this is considered by most to be the big one.

Most people don’t understand how bail works, and when they need that knowledge, they usually have more pressing problems. What you know from watching TV isn’t enough.

In this day and age, DNA evidence is simply taken as a given. It was not that long ago, however, that DNA evidence was some strange, radical new procedure. It took a number of years before it was even trusted enough to be a regular part of police work.

One of the best-known wrongful conviction cases in recent history is that of Lynn M. DeJac Peters, a Buffalo woman who spent 13 years in prison charged with strangling her 13-year-old daughter.

The plight of a wrongfully-imprisoned New York man took a step forward when he filed a notice of claim against the city.

When it comes to wrongful conviction, there are certain cases that seem to grab the media’s attention more than others. Arguably, the one that grabbed the most attention was that of renowned boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, who passed away just this past week.

Throughout the United States, not everyone agrees about what should be done with wrongfully convicted individuals once they are released from prison. In some states, it is immensely difficult to receive any kind of recompense, and individuals are merely thrown back out to the streets with barely a “whoops.”