A new registry identifying a lengthy list of wrongful conviction cases is launching this week with the intention to draw more attention to the problem.
It is starting with 83 cases of people whose convictions were overturned.new federal commission
to review potential cases of wrongful conviction in part because so many of the current cases being reviewed don't reflect the makeup of Canada's prison population. Indigenous offenders are overrepresented in Canadian prisons, but the wrongful conviction data shows only 16 of the 83 cases involved Indigenous people.
Lawyer and database project co-founder Amanda Carling says legal reforms in Canada have recognized too many Indigenous people are in prison, but there has never been an institutionalized recognition many of them shouldn't be behind bars in the first place.
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