I’m not quite sure why, but I found this particularly repellent:<\/p>\n
According to [Marissa Bluestine, the assistant director of the\u00a0Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice<\/a> at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School], unsavory actors have taken advantage of the profusion of innocence organizations to exploit anxious inmates marked for death. \u201cThere is this weird cottage industry of folks who are under the radar\u2014and I think they are completely predatory and disgusting,\u201d she said. \u201cThey will reach out to folks who are incarcerated, [and] offer to review their case and present it to a conviction-integrity unit, saying it\u2019ll only cost you $2,500. And they have no intention of doing any work.\u201d Bluestine said she has worked with clients who have lost money and resources, such as transcripts with only one extant copy, to scams masquerading as innocence efforts. None of which is to say that genuine innocence programs are responsible for their malicious imposters\u2014only that the proliferation of scattered innocence groups across the judicial landscape has given the fakes room to grow. [Elizabeth Bruenig, <\/em>The Atlantic<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I suppose an innocence program, which advocates for convicts for whom there is some credible doubt as to their guilt, is simply trading in a product, and as such grifters\/scammers are attracted due to the desperate circumstances of the customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’m not quite sure why, but I found this particularly repellent: According to [Marissa Bluestine, the assistant director of the\u00a0Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School], unsavory actors have taken advantage of the profusion of innocence organizations to exploit anxious inmates \u2026 Continue reading