The recent findings of a Better Government Association (BGA) investigation lay out the High Cost of Wrongful Convictions. The seven-month probe, which was done along with the Center on Wrongful Convictions and tracked exonerations between 1989 and 2010, found that taxpayers spent $214 million during that time period to send 85 innocent men and women to jail for a collective 926 years.
But wrongful convictions don't only cost the state money, they also cost lives.
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