I have just finished reading The Exonerated. It's a play about six people on Death Row who, after spending years in prison, are finally found to be innocent.
Some of them are cases of racial prejudice, others were in the wrong place at the wrong time, another was a case in which a prominent townsperson beat the system. If this were a movie, it would be told in true "dramatisation" fashion and it would suck, but the play is styled after The Laramie Project. As such it is compelling and infuriating.
More than anything, it makes me want to have multiple people know where I am at any given time. It makes me want to learn more about my legal rights were I to be arrested or questioned. I never want to end up in a situation like these people were put into- and this is exactly the reason I hate all of the posturing and big talk in police dramas. Take the treatment of just about every single suspect in those Law and Orders- someone always tells the suspect that they know they did it, and a load of other stuff that's largely hogswallop to get them to confess.
Of course, this is a television show, so she really did murder her husband and sleep with her step-son in return for drugs, but, whatever. The problem is that this is little better than being held by the mob, and it seems to be an indication of what is actually allowed to go on in the course of finding justice.
It's not justice to treat anyone, no matter their guilt or innoncence, like a criminal.