456: Laura Nirider | Anatomy of a False Confession

Laura Nirider (@LauraNirider) is the co-director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, and the co-host of the Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions podcast.

What We Discuss with Laura Nirider:

• Two to five percent of people currently serving time in prison have been falsely convicted.
• False confessions and admissions are present in 15 to 20 percent of all DNA exonerations.
• The United States is one of the only countries in the world that allows police to lie about evidence during interrogations.
• Why so many people are coerced into providing false confessions during interrogations that are gentle compared to the more "hands on" approach taken by police in decades past.
• How Laura is working to clean up interrogation techniques so they're still effective in solving crimes without trapping innocent people in the system.
• And much more...

Full show notes and resources can be found here: jordanharbinger.com/456

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