The transit police said 10 young men were wrongly jailed based on the complaints of James Cooley, 25, an unemployed freight handler.

Cotton Weary (Liev Schreiber), wrongly jailed in the first film, now wants 10 minutes' worth of national television time as reparations.

His performance as a quiet Belfast man wrongly jailed in England alongside his son has brought him an Oscar nomination for supporting actor.

Based on the injustices revealed by DNA testing, the authors assert that "tens of thousands" of prisoners "most likely" have been wrongly jailed.

A rumor was floating around that the Americans would pay $2,000 for each year a man spent in prison if he could prove he was wrongly jailed.

"It was a travesty of justice, as much for the victims as for the people wrongly jailed for crimes they did not commit."

Besharov continues "innocent people are having their reputations tarnished and their privacy invaded, and some are being wrongly jailed."

Mr. Moore praised the decision to withdraw the policy but said that people who were wrongly jailed should be compensated.

Kill Switch, an account of a former British soldier wrongly jailed in Afghanistan.

Over the years, nine people had been wrongly jailed for some of the murders of which Tkach was found guilty.