Just sit down, and imagine the fact that you could be in jail right now, for something you didn't do. People every year are put in jail based on false Eye-Witness testimonies and false evidence for crimes that they did not commit.
But the U.S. Justice system has realised that this is becoming a huge problem, and thats where we get DNA evidence. Un-debatable evidence that can only be linked to one person on this earth. As DNA evidence is being used in more and more court cases, less people are being falsely imprisoned and more people are being exonerated (released from jail after new evidence was presented). A group called Project Innocence aims to help exonerate falsely imprisoned people, ans as of now, they have exonerated 316 people from prison.
My personal reaction to this would be that I think Project Innocence is definitely a step in the right direction, but the thing that we need to fix would be the loophole in the justice system that keeps on allowing people to be falsely imprisoned and convicted of things that they did not do.
