xi.1: So Much Time Lost

“In state prisons, over 60 percent… 500 miles away.”
Mumola, Christopher J. “Incarcerated Parents and Their Children,” a Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report, August 2000.

xi.2: A Victim Again

“As a result… verse for verse.”
Ehrenreich, Ben. “Predator or Prey? For James Rodriguez, the only way to freedom was to confess to sex crimes he — and one of his alleged victims — says he did not commit.” LA Weekly, August 2004.

“ ‘Even in situations less stressful and coercive than a stationhouse interrogation... substantial numbers of children will agree to things that are factually inaccurate.’”
Krzewinski, Lisa M. “But I didn’t do it: protecting the rights of juveniles during interrogation.” Boston College Third World Law Journal, Volume 22:2, 2002.

ix.3: The Magic Bullet

“From 1992 to September 2005, more than 160 prisoners were exonerated by DNA evidence.”
The Innocence Project. Various.

“As then-Virginia Attorney General… ‘innocence is irrelevant.’”
Wilton, Charles. “ ‘Innocence is Irellevant.’” Peacework Magazine, American Friends Service Committee, April 1999.