Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin Host ‘Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions’ (Podcast)
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- Published on Monday, 05 October 2020 11:55
- Written by Hildy Johnson
Imagine spending years behind bars — or even facing the death penalty — for a crime you didn’t commit. Now go one step further and imagine that the evidence that put you there is your own words.
False confessions are more common than most might imagine. Whether through psychological persuasion, prolonged isolation, or even outright lying, threats or promises, coercive interrogation techniques have played a decisive role in sending innocent people — including minors and intellectually-impaired persons — to prison.
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Today, Season Two of the podcast Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions launches, examining this true crime phenomenon through the eyes of two of the globe’s leading experts on interrogations. Hosts Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin — renowned attorneys, co-directors of Northwestern University’s Center on Wrongful Convictions, and recognized figures from the hit Netflix docuseries Making a Murderer — have dedicated their lives to understanding and solving the problem of false confessions.
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Read about Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions in People and listen to Episode 1 here.
Produced by Lava for Good Podcasts, Season One of Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions propelled Wrongful Conviction Podcasts to #1 in True Crime and #3 on the U.S. podcast charts, intriguing audiences with unparalleled firsthand experience and actual interrogation audio of false confessions and the ensuing wrongful incarcerations that follow.
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For the second season, Nirider and Drizin go even deeper, bringing in leading lawyers, experts, and formerly incarcerated people to share their personal struggles for justice. These heart-wrenching stories show how injustice can spread from the interrogation room to the courtroom — and even to the execution chamber. "Our goal," said Nirider, "is to inspire our listeners to join us in our urgent fight against wrongful convictions."
Drizin added, “We want these stories to give hope to others who are still locked up and to lead to changes in the way that police investigate cases so that future suspects are not wrongfully arrested and convicted based on false confessions.”
This season’s cases span from the Norfolk Four — U.S. Navy enlistees who falsely confessed to murder after relentless hours of interrogation — to Ronald Kitchen, one of more than a hundred Black men systematically tortured by high-ranking officers within the Chicago Police Department.
Each gripping story is unique, but all share a common element: each false confession, each wrongful conviction, and every day that passes during which an innocent person must wait behind bars is a tragic injustice for the wrongfully incarcerated, the victim and their loved ones, as well as for the public whose safety and right to a fair criminal justice system are undone through false, coerced confessions.
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Lava for Good Podcasts, along with Lava Music, is a part of Lava Media. Executive produced by renowned music executive, podcast host, children's book author, philanthropist, and Lava Media founder/CEO Jason Flom in association with Signal Co. No1 and PRX, the Lava for Good Podcasts lineup also includes Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom and Wrongful Conviction: Junk Science. As a longtime supporter and board member of numerous leading criminal justice reform organizations, Flom has been a dedicated criminal justice advocate for nearly 30 years.
Season Two of Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions is available through the same feed and platforms where fans already listen and subscribe to the Wrongful Conviction Podcasts series. You can find the Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions feed atwww.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com.
