Though it's easy to focus on the fact that the documentary has been very profitable for Netflix, it is good that it has brought to people's attention that unfortunately our justice system is not perfect and innocent people sometimes wind up in prison for very long periods (and executed). Ms. Zellner has certainly done an excellent job, but there are many other innocent people in similar situations as SA and BD. The Innocence Project (see link below) is the group that works tirelessly to get these people exonerated. There are many volunteers, but it is still quite expensive, so if you would really like to make a difference, you should look into donating some money to these guys. I have been donating every year for some time now.
https://www.innocenceproject.org/
Just in America it is estimated that there are between roughly 50,000 and 250,000 innocent people (and this figure is very low...it is probably much much higher in true reality) who are rotting in jail for crimes that they didn't commit, and were wrongly, unjustly convicted and incarcerated.
"It is too easy to convict an innocent person.
The rate of wrongful convictions in the United States is estimated to be somewhere between 2 percent and 10 percent. That may sound low, but when applied to an estimated prison population of 2.3 million, the numbers become staggering. Can there really be 46,000 to 230,000 innocent people locked away? Those of us who are involved in exoneration work firmly believe so."
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We need an army of Kathleen Zellners, a whole bunch like her. ...Replicants, artificial intelligence, ...
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