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This article shows a point of view most people do not think about nor are they faced with this situation in their personal lives. Being accused of a crime and presumed guilty by the media, society and sometimes family before even being tried for the crime.

This article is very interesting! I completely agree that because of the various forms of media in our society today, and the influence they have on the public, people accused of crimes are usually immediately assumed to be guilty. The authors suggestion that names and pictures stay out of the media, while still informing employers, family, or anyone else who comes in contact with the accused is a great way to ensure privacy if they turn out to be innocent, but also to keep them from victimizing others in case they are in fact guilty.

This topic is not brought up a lot, but it should. This article provides a very good explanation behind the saying "innocent until proven guilty". It also explains that not all of us follow under that saying. It is a saying with actual meaning behind it and more of us need to follow it.

The Innocence Project exonerates the wrongly convicted through DNA testing and reforms the criminal justice system to prevent future injustices. This site has a lot of information on cases they are working on. This site also has suggestions on how they are trying to reform the system to make it more efficient and just.

Over the years many innocent men and women have been wrongful convicted of crimes they never committed. Each day many are proven innocent and finally able to see loves ones and walk as free men and women again.

My heart hurts for people who are wrongly incarcerated. After they are released it isn't enough to apologize or give them large amounts of money. There are no transitional programs to reintegrate them into society. It's usually up to local organizations to help people get back on their feet.

Wrongful incarceration is a really big deal in our country. Black men and women especially are being incarcerated at higher rates due to petty crimes or crimes they didn't even commit and I think that really needs to be fixed.

How many innocent Americans are behind bars? This article talks about a mans life after he was released. It talks about how it changed his life completely.

This website suggest reasons the people are wrongfully convicted of crimes. The site also has a list of cases of people they are researching the case files to prove their innocence. This site also has suggestions on reform for our justice system.

This was very upsetting. The video briefly descibes Brianna's death and her killers. Following is an article that says Brianna's killers will not serve their full sentence due to good behavior. Her mother who was one of her killers will be released after serving only 13 of her 27 year sentence. Where is our justice for our innocent lives?

I have a hard time reading about the mistreatment of children. This was difficult to watch and read. I think that the biggest issue here though is that murderers are being released without serving a full or fair sentence simply because they know how to behave well in front of the prison guards.

I too have a difficult time hearing about how mothers, especially mothers, can harm their children. I have children of my own and I don't understand how some one can do that to their child. I hate how Brianna's killers can get away with it, and yes I do think they got away with it because they aren't rooting in jail for the rest of their lives just because they played the part and acted innocent while in jail.

The death penalty is not a solution to cases involving murder, and may lead to cases where the mentally sick or innocent people are sentenced to death. The article provides numbers and statistics that support these claims.

This site is a pod cast site that informs the listener of a cases they of people that looks like they were wrongly accused. The attorney's on this pod case do so much research on the case files of the accused person. They are very good at informing the listener of the facts of the case.

This year in May the state of Maryland had capital punishment eliminated. Supporters claim that the death penalty is unjust because often times a person can be found innocent years later.

This article discusses the disappearing principle of the presumption of innocence. It gives a basic overview of how the loss of inmate rights has grown through the years.

The chances of an innocent black man being gunned down by racist cops are vanishingly small. And that is good news indeed.

Every year in Rajasthan, India, an unbelievable number of underage brides are married off illegally by their parents. These girls face severe emotional and physical abuse in most cases, and even though the marriage of a child under the age of 18 is illegal, it is still a prominent practice within the country.

This is what Gun violence does to the innocent. Many people are hurt or either killed because of Gun violence

This article is just appalling. I can not believe the horror stories that these parents have and are actually living. They have lost their kids to the system that was put in place to protect children not take them away from good parents. Seems the parents are guilty and can not even prove themselves innocent in CPS's eyes.

I am speechless, I would never imagine there would be a corrupt system involving government kidnapping! This is unfair to good parents and it is just ridiculous some of these parents were denied the right to a fair trial to prove themselves innocent.

Cecilia Attias calls out the inaction of the global leaders to prevent the horrific massacres occurring in hostile Islamic states. In the name of protecting innocent life, this genocidal persecution must be stopped before ISIS has accomplished it's publicized goal to kill all Christians.

This website shows the studies and statistics with the rates of police brutality for certain groups of people. This can be used to show how the abuse of power is being used to forward racism into this country even more.

This article discusses how many people are dying because of mistakes that police officers make when trying to capture a person. Most of these officers make mistakes, but more often their mistakes cost an innocent person's life.

This article is about the growing number of wrongful convictions being overturned. This article talks about some things states are doing to help stop wrongful convictions.

This article outlines how deceiving, and even ignorant the Black Lives Matter movement really is to claim that police are racist. A Harvard Law professor and his students conducted a experiment compiled of more than 3,000 hours of data, and concluded that in fact there is a race that is more likely to be shot by police, Caucasians, as there will be the least blow-back, or media coverage from the public about racial tensions, and racist police officers. The Black Lives Matter organization as of late is based off of the idea that police are killing in cold blood based off the idea that the victims are black. This idea is ludicrous and has been debunked several times before in the past. However BLM uses deceit and raises lots of money in order to recruit, train, and buy weapons for shooters such as Micah Xavier Johnson did in Dallas. The BLM organization has strong ties, and was founded by the Black Panthers, a known terrorist organization that targets Caucasians and police officers. It deeply saddens me that people can so easily tie themselves to a movement with such rotten foundations, which is deceiving millions of innocent people and taking advantage of them, using them as martyrs.

This research article gives detailed point by point information about the problems with Zero Tolerance Policies. The research done shows the goal of the policies and the actual effect they have had.

New research conducted by Dr. Dieter Wolke shows the lasting affects of bullying on youth. Researchers found that conflict amongst peers creates stress-related issues such as anxiety and depression. A call to action is asked among communities to find better resources for mental health.

This article should be exposed to anyone who has been bullied or bullied anyone.

It is so sad that someone else's actions can forever alter your mental state or even end your life.