Member Mondays: Meryl Schwartz presents Race and Wrongful Conviction: What innocence reveals about racism in the criminal justice system

While African Americans are only 13% of the American population, they constitute a majority of innocent defendants wrongfully convicted of crimes and later exonerated, mirroring disparities found across the criminal legal system. This unique group of people who are fortunate enough to have had their innocence proven provide a lens into how our systems of justice—designed to distinguish between the innocent and the guilty—get it wrong. Racial bias sits at the core. How can their experience lead us toward reform?

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