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How underfunding creates systemic delays that amount to additional punishment

I head the crime lab and we're backlogged by years while people sit in jail waiting for tests that could prove their innocence, but the city won't fund more staff.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

You're managing a bottleneck where resource constraints turn the pursuit of evidence into extended incarceration for people who may be innocent.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Wrongful conviction and structural failure?”

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