False confessions
2013-09-09 20:55:41.907147+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Holy cow: The Wall Street Journal has an article about false confessions coerced out of teenagers:
Juveniles are more likely than adults to confess to crimes they didn't commit, a growing body of evidence suggests. Thirty-eight percent of exonerations for crimes allegedly committed by youth under 18 in the last quarter century involved false confessions, compared with 11% for adults, according to a new database of 1,155 individuals who were wrongly convicted and later cleared of all charges.
When a Rupert freakin' Murdoch paper is interested in creating a fairer justice system, you know things are bad.