‘This can be a system that treats you higher should you’re wealthy and responsible, versus should you’re poor and harmless.’
Anthony Hinton spent 28 years on dying row in the US after being falsely convicted of a double homicide within the state of Alabama in 1985. He was lastly launched in 2015 and is now a neighborhood educator on the Equal Justice Initiative.
Hinton’s case shouldn’t be an outlier; at the least 5 % of the jail inhabitants is wrongly convicted. Which means that about one in each 20 judgements places an harmless particular person behind bars – as a rule an individual of color.
On UpFront, Marc Lamont Hill is joined by advocate and writer Anthony Hinton for a take a look at the issues within the system that result in hundreds of wrongful convictions.