The Criminal Injustice System has been broken since forever. Just take a look at the amount of innocent people that have been exonerated by the Innocence Project:
As of January 2020, the Innocence Project has documented over 365 DNA exonerations in the United States. [i]Twenty-one of these exonerees had previously been sentenced to death.
The vast majority (97%) of these people were wrongfully convicted of committing sexual assault and/or murder. Although these individuals were innocent of these crimes, approximately 25% had confessed and 11% had pleaded guilty. These exonerees spent an average of 14 years in prison–10% of whom spent 25 years or more in prison for crimes they didn’t commit.*[/i]
What I particularly like to point out is the varying degrees of cowardice that different state/federal/private prison systems show after they're proven wrong in court but then go run and hide from awarding millions of dollars in compensation to acquitted convicts who rightfully deserve it.
* https://innocenceproject.org/research-resources/
