Central Park Five Members Call on N.Y. to Enact Reforms to Keep Innocent People Out of Prison

 

By Kenneth Lovett

ALBANY — Three members of the Central Park Five who wrongly spent years in prison for the notorious rape of a jogger that they didn't commit are calling on the state Legislature to enact reforms designed to keep innocents from being incarcerated.

Working on a new campaign with the Innocence Project and the state New York Hotel Trades Council, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana and Yusef Salaam took part in an ad set to be unveiled this week backing legislation to require the electronic recording of police interrogations and new procedures on evidence-based eyewitness identification.

The ad, which will be part of a digital and cable TV campaign, notes there have been 223 wrongful convictions that have been overturned in New York State since 1989. Of those, 76 were freed because of eyewitness misidentification and 34 as a result of a false confession. 

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Source: The New York Daily News (via The Empire Report)