Rough Justice (1982)
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United Kingdom
How it feels
This BBC documentary series looks into possible wrongful convictions in the UK. Each episode investigates a case where someone claims they were wrongly found guilty. The show helped get 18 people released over its 25-year run.
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What happens
Rough Justice is a British television programme that was broadcast on BBC, and which investigated alleged miscarriages of justice. It was broadcast between 1982 and 2007 and played a role in overturning the convictions of 18 people involved in 13 separate cases where miscarriages of justice had occurred. The programme was similar in aim and approach to The Court of Last Resort, the NBC programme that aired in the United States from 1957–58. It is credited with contributing to the establishment of the Criminal Cases Review Commission in 1997. Rough Justice was cancelled in 2007 due to budget restraints, leading to criticism from the media. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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