About 2,000 exonerations documented in registry hosted at UCI

May 2017

Roughly 2,000 people have been exonerated in the U.S. since 1989, as documented by the National Registry of Exonerations, which is hosted by the Newkirk Center for Science and Society at UCI's School of Social Ecology.

The Registry is compilation of all the known exonerations, and was recently mentioned in a Southern California Public Radio story about wrongful convictions.

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