Speaker 1: California has the largest prison system in the United States.
Speaker 1: The United States has the largest prison system in the world.
Speaker 2: You have all the different gangs, and you have all
Speaker 2: the different factions in each gang. It is so abnormal
Speaker 2: for a human being to put under those conditions.
Speaker 3: In some cases capital murder cases, just preventing a death
Speaker 3: sentence and getting life without parole was a win, and
Speaker 3: that was a win that I struggled to wrap my
Speaker 3: head around.
Speaker 4: A lot of people in society believed that we need
Speaker 4: to throw away the key on the men and women
Speaker 4: that go to prison. I may have been innocent, but
Speaker 4: there are a lot of guilty people in prison that
Speaker 4: are not the worst of the crime that they committed.
Speaker 4: These people can be redeemed.
Speaker 5: Our sentences have gotten so long that when we hear
Speaker 5: somebody say, oh, we got five years, that's not bad,
Speaker 5: think about how much happens in five years. We've lost
Speaker 5: track of how long that is.
Speaker 6: I mean, when they came and said that they were
Speaker 6: charging me like that was so shocking to me because
Speaker 6: I had been tragged to deceive him everything from the
Speaker 6: day I met him till the day I lost him.
Speaker 6: He's keeping him alive.
Speaker 7: People just want justice so bad that they're willing to
Speaker 7: accept everything at face value when they need to really
Speaker 7: look deeper and really stand up when they hear about
Speaker 7: an injustice that's happening.
Speaker 8: When you're manipulated by a power and a justice system
Speaker 8: that is supposed to be the last of the line,
Speaker 8: is supposed to be the true sense of justice, the
Speaker 8: true sense of what's going on, at least as closest
Speaker 8: we can get it.
Speaker 9: I can forgive anybody that has been manipulated. I can't
Speaker 9: forgive those that did the manipulating. And I always say
Speaker 9: there's two naive positions. One naive position is that everyone
Speaker 9: in prison is innocent. The other naive position is everyone
Speaker 9: in prison is guilty. We're trying to figure out where
Speaker 9: does that line end.
Speaker 10: Last season on Sworn, we looked at some of the
Speaker 10: crimes in cases that caught America's attention and highlighted serious
Speaker 10: issues in our justice system. This season, we've got a
Speaker 10: new approach. We're tackling the real problems in legal system directly.
Speaker 10: We're looking at things like faulty forensic science, false confessions,
Speaker 10: and mandatory minimum prison sentences. Here are the stories of
Speaker 10: innocent people who ended up behind bars and hear from
Speaker 10: people who are fighting to fix these issues. Join us
Speaker 10: this season on Sworn