Exonerations by Conviction Review Units

Philadelphia’s Conviction Review Unit, which investigates claims of innocence of people who feel they have been wrongly convicted, has not produced any exonerations since its establishment in 2014. Half of 24 similar units nationwide had not exonerated any prisoners through the end of 2015. In the table below, shaded blocks indicate years in which a conviction-review unit did not exist.

* Santa Clara County’s unit also exonerated one prisoner in 2003, bringing its total exonerations to 4.

SOURCE: National Registry of Exonerations, University of Michigan Law School