Criminal Justice Facts

About 1 in 30 people, in the U.S., are in jail, on probation, or on parole!

Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.

Less than 10% of criminals commit about 67% of all crime.

About 1 in 30 people in the U.S. are in jail, on probation, or on parole.

Ryan Ferguson spent nearly 10 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit - convicted after a witness claimed he 'remembered' the night through dream-like flashbacks. Both witnesses later admitted they lied. An appeals court freed him, then a jury handed him $37.9 million.

Brian Boles was 17 when police handcuffed him to a chair for two days and fed him a false confession to a crime he didn't commit. He spent 30 years locked up - and used that time to enroll in the Bard Prison Initiative. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in sociology two months before a judge officially cleared his name.