he imprisonment of innocent people. Nothing tarnishes our criminal justice system more. Whatever the reason - mistaken eyewitnesses, ineffective lawyers, police misconduct, unreliable forensics - it happens more than we care to think. Hundreds, perhaps thousands of people are trapped in the worst nightmare imaginable, behind bars or even on death row for crimes they didn't commit. The U.S. Department of Justice, in a candid publication called CONVICTED BY JURIES, EXONERATED BY SCIENCE, admits that scores of Americans sit in prison unjustly. THE INNOCENCE PROJECT, founded at Cardoza Law School in New York, is repsonsible for freeing dozens of wrongly convicted citizens in only the past few years. THE INNOCENCE PROJECT has recently expanded to law schools across the U.S. and Canada where professors and students are interceding on behalf of the wrongly-convicted. Each episode of JUSTICE DENIED will examine the case of a prisoner who appears to have been wrongly convicted and whose claim of innocence is supported by a lie-detector test. JUSTICE DENIED will hire private detectives, forensic scientists and other experts and follow them through their investigation of a case. At the end of each show, we'll find out whether or not we have, in fact, uncovered a miscarriage of justice. Media attention is often the only way to persuade authorities to re-open a closed case. Featuring dramatic real life stories, where everything hangs in the balance, JUSTICE DENIED will not only capture the attention of viewers, it will also make a difference.
