I'm Lauren brag Pacheco, and I'm back for a new season of Wrongful Conviction. This season, we're confronting one of the greatest failures in our justice system. When innocent people are sent to prison, almost no one is ever held accountable.
I have no clue with Joe, what the hell it not involved in any kind of way. How am I sposed to serve with scenates for something that I do.
An estimated five percent of people behind bars are innocent. That's more than one hundred thousand lives stolen.
They don't need concrete evidence to bind You're guilty here. It's like they don't take a human life serious.
You know, these aren't statistics. They're real people stripped of their freedom, families, and futures by a system that promises innocent until proven guilty, but far too often delivers the opposite.
It was physically impossible. Arnold Schwarzenegger couldn't throw a dead body forty five feet, But I also knew I was based on the blood types.
We've known for decades. Why it happens? I witness misidentification, coerced confessions, junk science, official misconduct, and yet it keeps happening with almost no consequences for those responsible.
Qualified immunity is a huge issue. I don't see how prosecutors or police can ever really be held accountable the longest there's this immunity.
So the question remains, how do we stop it?
They say someday everybody's going to be judged by God.
I wonder are they going to step up and say, you know, there's something wrong back then?
This season we're asking what real accountability looks like for the wrongfully convicted and for the people fighting to bring them home.
My daughters, they have to grow up without being Hopefully, one day I'll be homes with most you know.
The new season of Wrongful Conviction with Lauren Bright Pacheco drops November thirteenth,