Paid Per Conviction
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- Published on Thursday, 29 August 2013 17:59
- Written by Advocates For Ajay
Roger Koppl and Meghan Sacks authored a paper written for the journal Criminal Justice Ethics. They looked into how the criminal justice system incentivizes wrongful convictions. One section shows the disturbing way some state crime labs are funded; they are paid a fee only when a test implicates a suspect but are paid nothing if the test clears the suspect.
Read the article in the Huffington Post.
