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Papantonio: Prisoners Wrongfully Accused
America's criminal justice system is flawed in almost every regard. A wealthy white man can get away with raping his 3 year old daughter -- as was the case recently with Robert Richards, heir to the Du Pont fortune -- but minorities are often incarcerated based on faulty evidence and inaccurate eyewitness accounts. Ring of Fire's Mike Papantonio and Mark Godsey, director of the Ohio Innocence Project, discuss the program, and what's being done to protect innocent people from going to prison.