Canada's legal system has a serious problem: a significant but unknown number of people have been convicted for crimes they didn't commit. Kent Roach, cofounder of the Canadian Registry of Wrongful Convictions, reveals that the burden of wrongful convictions falls disproportionately on the disadvantaged, including Indigenous and racialized people, those with cognitive issues, single mothers, and the poor. Roach makes a compelling case for change, including better legislative regulation of police and forensic experts and the creation of a permanent and independent federal commission both to investigate wrongful convictions and their multiple causes.
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