Baltimore’s State’s Attorney’s office houses a Conviction Integrity Unit that addresses wrongful convictions. Eddie Conway talked to Marilyn Mosby about their goals for the unit and to Walter Lomax and Michael Austin, both wrongfully convicted and exonerated, about their losses and how the justice system needs to change.

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46 thoughts on “What Is the Financial Cost to Society of Wrongful Convictions?”
  1. the justice system isn't defuntional…it operates exactly the oppressor made it to…isn't it funny that the race of people who raped, robbed, and enslaved brown people makes a system that throws them in prison for nothing….funny how that works right…smdh

  2. You become a free slave for the state the city whenever you're from doesn't matter what state you're from your you become a slave for that state even if you never committed a crime

  3. 22,010 years lost is a bit of a misnomer. because the taxpayers paid $33,000 per year on average to house a prisoner. I'm going to leave it to you to do the math, but someone is getting that money from the taxpayers for all these wrong convictions.

  4. Yet black people overwhelmingly support a political Party for whom this issue isn't even a topic of discussion.

  5. This is so sad man, white people look what are you are doing to black people one day this pain will transfer back to you

  6. Making CRIMINALS out of TAXPAYERS..The USA justice system (“COPs , district attorney , judges”)
    All LIE , COVER UP , PLANTS EVIDENCE , STONE WALL EVIDENCE. To make CRIMINALS out of US..

  7. Simplist solution would be holding the cops and prosecutors responsible, a few years imprison so they can experience Frist hand what they have done.

  8. The only real solution to current day Slavery and oppression is to leave the system. Voting won't do anything. Marching doesn't change anything. We must leave the system, stop using money, stop buying crap, and move to safer inclusive communities globally. There are 212 countries globally… most countries don't hunt, jail and kill their citizens. FreeHousingCommunity dot info.

  9. From slavery to jim crow… jim crow is still going on… white men are terrified of black people. Why? Black people are African / Ethiopian (Asia, Europe, and Africa is one land mass. Before the Europeans invaded the world, Africa, Asian and Europe were one land mass called Africa. Africa was called Ethiopia before the Europeans changed the name. All humans are from Africa / Ethiopia. Period. Ethiopians migrated and explored globally. There is only one race of humans. Pale / white Africans are only 8% of the global population.

    Africa actually has a population of 4 billion Africans, not 1 billion. Africans are 92% of the global population and white men are only 4%. This is why white men work over time to genocide, lock us up, make us sick, etc… top scholars confirm this this information (Dr. Dawkins, Dr. Welsing, Dr. Clarke, etc…) Blacks have never been 13% of any population. That's a flat out lie. The church created the concept of colorism to separate us. The church also stole methology from African text and rewrote the bible and forced Christianity on the slaves or they could be beaten or killed. Christianity taught black Africans to comply and obey the slave master. It's a stole religion from our ancestors. Everything has been stolen from the African and repackaged and sold to us.

    Black Africans have all the power globally, we just don't know it… All people are complicit in maintaining WS. Period. If you work for the system or buy stuff from the system… you are maintaining the WS system. I recommend leaving the system, become sustainable in safe and healthy places, globally. If all black Africans (All people of color) get off the bus (system) the station would close for good. Just like the bus boycotts…. the system can't survive without us. I get people off the system… freehousingcommunity dot info | Fantastic story… sad that the DA and Judges can't be sent to jail for all these false convictions. The system doesn't penalize the real criminals of the system. (Police, DA, & Judges)

  10. Keep in mind these are stories we know of. There are many that we don't know of. But then again this is mainly affecting blacks so who cares right…

  11. I have NO RESPECT for ANYONE in the
    INJUSTICE SYSTEM, I don't care how many robes and badges they wear. They have to prove wrong.

  12. ONCE AGAIN LAW ENFORCEMENT AINT SHIT…AND AS FAR AS IN CONCERNED THEY NEED TO CLEAR ALL THAT BULLSHIT OUT…..UNTIL THAT IS DONE THIS KIND OF SHIT WILL KEEP HAPPENING….

  13. White taxpayers evidently don't mind paying out multimillion-dollar settlements two African Americans, because if they didn't mind paying out these settlements they would do something about it because they know what's going on!!!

  14. I notice that the only ones they'll mostly cop to are Hispanics or white being falsely prosecuted that tells me there is a bigger problem than what people really know.

  15. There is no getting back what these people have lost their whole lives just gone over corrupt lying cops lawyer's and judges that are still to this day are completely destroying innocent people's lives through the corrupt lying courts child support and sheriff department and nobody is being held accountable and prosicuded but the men who's getting locked up so the corrupt parish can get there money not the child that they claim to be protecting

  16. PROSECUTORS DONT CARE ABOUT JUSTICE.
    ZIOMAFIA SYSTEM SETS UP A SYSTEM OF NUMBERS. THE POLICE MAXIMIZE THEIR ARREST AT ALL COSTS
    THE PROSECUTORS MAXIMIZE IMPRISONMENT AT ALL COSTS.
    THEIR WORTH & PROMOTIONS ARE BASED ON MAXIMIZING THE NUMBERS TOWARDS ENSLAVEMENT!!@!

  17. The PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX CAPITALIZES ON 13 AMENDMENT WHICH ALLOWS FOR SLAVERY WHILE INCARCERATED..
    SLAVERY IS NOT ENDED & THE ZIOMAFIA SATANISTS TERRORIST STILL FEEDS ON THE SOUL OF BLACK SHEEPLES

  18. It will make me very happy when THIS "just-us" system collapses in hot fire from US THE PEOPLE hands . So help me truth. Amen.

  19. This is sad!! Only a pure evil satanic person would do that to another person. All the money in the world isn't worth that. GOD gives us all time. And MONEY can't buy it back from him. He'll fire awaits the unjust ungodly system of white supremacy

  20. Why did those of this Prosecutors, and Judges who made innocent People in Prisons why they didn't go to Jail for perjury and lies. Otherwise there is something auomaticly goes wrong in Justice Department?

  21. No black attorney care about this cause they are to busy hoping a white law firm hire them. Black attorneys are worthless to black people.

    Prosecutors live off of jailing the innocent. It no mix up no accident. It's done on purpose. Black people too docile and stupid to face the facts

  22. OMG- I just ran across this video. I don't know if anyone will ever read this, but when I was a little teenager in California, way back in the early 1970s, I went through an illegal search and seizure. At the time, I have to admit that I was no angel. I was living with a boyfriend who was selling drugs, although I was not doing or selling the drugs, myself. Since I didn't really didn't really have anything to do with it, I considered it his issue. However, the law didn't see it that way (which I now can't blame them).

    A.nyway, since they searched (illegally, without a warrant) and couldn't find anything, they planted a bottle of pills in my bedroom that were illegal drugs. And then, they supposedly "discovered" them on the bedroom window sill (where I watched the woman-nark put them).

  23. The cost to Society is immeasurable. If I knew the kind of info that the Police need, I would never help the Police. The Cops just want numbers; it would take Social Programs to get down the crime rates. Policing cannot get down the crime rates. The system is so racist and so elitist that it is not working. The Police and the Politicians are scumbags.

  24. I doubt black people expected miracles from the Conviction Integrity Unit, its still part of a bigger problem of law enforcement as a political institution.
    The CIU is a creation that comes after the fact. With such a long line of falsely incarcerated individuals to investigate and re-investigate it serves to delay freedom.
    I would say if this office were multiplied and staffed across all jurisdictions a difference would be made to correct wrongful convictions and deconstruct the private prison system.

  25. The people in this video are lying about prosecutors not wanting to lock up innocent people. Prosecutors only push forward cases they feel that they can win, regardless of the truth.

  26. the court system of slavery is not equal at law as people in positions of power who either help create or should know better holding a position of power or in higher authority to the lessor.

    pedophiles need to be burnt alive by the stake in public until the confess to their crimes then ADD MORE FUEL!

  27. The DA in Brooklyn started a unit like that and before he passed away atleast ten people were freed because of the criminal cops and prosecutor who railroaded them.It is up to like almost 30 people freed after spending half their life in prison.

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