Last Friday was Wrongful Conviction Day.
In Minnesota, prisoner advocates estimate the number inmates serving time on wrongful convictions -- crimes they did not do -- to be at least 200.
The state's unit to review wrongful convictions closed in July with 160 cases still under investigation. 🧵
Black Americans are the most likely to be wrongfully convicted of a crime and represent up to 60% of all exonerations in the country despite making up less than 14% of the total population.
In Minnesota, wrongful convictions have been a focal point of political campaigns.
Before she was a state rep, Amy Klobuchar was a prosecutor.
From 1999-2007, Klobuchar oversaw a 600% increase of Black men being sent to prison, including wrongfully convicted Myon Burrell.
Oct 5, 2026, 11:52 PM@UnicornRiot ...timely....watched Just Mercy on Nextflix recently....about the vast institutionalized injustice of the "legal system" in Alabama. Brings home the real need for reforms, reviews, etc of convictions, process, representation, evidence, and the like of criminal court proceedings, broadly speaking....