False confessions are one way that innocent individuals find themselves behind bars, or even on death row. False confessions are even more reliable than eyewitness identification, so if someone makes the mistake of "confessing" they may be in for a long haul. The innocence project is striving to get more knowledge out about false confessions and also has ways in which the problem can be fixed. Below are a few links to their website. The first talks about false confessions, the second is a page dedicated to ways to fix the problem and the last link is to a video clip of a Texas man named Chris Ochoa who was exonerated after being in prison for a false confession!
http://www.innocenceproject.org/understand/False-Confessions.php
http://www.innocenceproject.org/fix/False-Confessions.php
http://www.innocenceproject.org/news/playvideo.php?file=/Images/748/ochoa_c.wmv&title=&time=04:25
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