This #WrongfulConvictionDay, we're revisiting a Q&A with @JThompson0429 — who unknowingly sent the wrong man to prison and later co-authored a book with him — and her husband Frank Baumgartner, a political scientist who studies wrongful convictions.https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/03/21/when-the-innocent-go-to-prison-how-many-guilty-go-free?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sprout&utm_source=twitter …
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In this piece, Jennifer Thompson and Frank Baumgartner make the case that preventing wrongful convictions is not just a way of stopping individual injustices: it's a way of fighting crime.https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/03/21/when-the-innocent-go-to-prison-how-many-guilty-go-free?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sprout&utm_source=twitter …
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"I'd say, 'When someone is wrongfully convicted, there is a guilty person on the street committing more crimes,' and people would look at me funny and say, 'Oh my God, I never thought about that.' " — Jennifer Thompsonhttps://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/03/21/when-the-innocent-go-to-prison-how-many-guilty-go-free?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sprout&utm_source=twitter …
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