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Wrongful Conviction, with Jason Flom

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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The Propaganda of Freeing People

Studies have shown that people who don't go to jail before trial are much less likely to commit a crime or be arrested for a crime in the ensuing time after they've been freed, right? And they were freed. So it's demonstrably true that freeing people, except for people who are accused of the most terrible things, is a policy that saves us huge amounts of money.

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