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Emmys: Timely Netflix Docuseries ‘The Innocence Files’ Exposes Racial Bias, Injustice In Criminal Justice System

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By Matthew Carey The death of George Floyd under the knee of a white police officer in Minneapolis has triggered nationwide reflection on systemic racism in America.

While the focus since Floyd’s killing has been on policing, the Netflix documentary series The Innocence Files widens the lens to interrogate bias and misconduct in the criminal justice system as a whole—encompassing police, prosecutors, trials and evidence, and mass incarceration.

The Emmy-contending series, which features episodes directed by Oscar winners Alex Gibney and Roger Ross Williams, and Oscar nominee and Emmy winner Liz Garbus, grew out of the work of the Innocence Project, a nonprofit with a mission to “free the staggering number of innocent people who remain

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