Our innocence project chapter is predominantly white volunteers working primarily Black defendants' cases, and we've never directly addressed how our own position in the system that creates these injustices affects our advocacy approach.
More people experience this than they realize.
The demographics of those seeking to fix systemic failures often mirror those who benefit from the systems, creating unexamined contradictions in advocacy efforts.
“Where Are You with Wrongful conviction and structural failure?”
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