This is Good: I Must Confess

As the weekend rolls in and you find yourself on the browser page of your Netflix account in search of the next show you'll begin to binge watch, it'd like to consider a very interesting series I recently discovered.

Before I get into the details surrounding the series, I'd like to establish that as part of this blog, I will introduce a number of series I have found to be entertaining, intriguing, and great to watch.

The series I selected as part of my first blog post is one that is very short and one you can complete within a weekends time. There are only seven episodes and within the first, you will most likely be drawn in. The series is called... The Confession Tapes. This series is not one of the most popular given that its not a reality TV series or drama but it is a great documentary series about a fluke in our justice system.

When we think about our justice system, the fourth and sixth amendments, the due process of law, we center in on the idea of justice. Is the accused person facing true justice? A justice that holds them accountable for their actions, and if convicted, is sure that they pay for their transgressions. Yet we all know, in trail, a person is innocent until proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt.

So what is the fluke you may ask? Well according to the episodes of this series, there has been multiple occurrences in which one is found guilty but not beyond reasonable doubt. How is it that our justice system is able to put individuals behind bars for a good portion of their lives or for their entire life without being completely sure they are actually innocent? How do we take life away from someone without considering the possibility that they are indeed innocent and the actually perpetrator is not still out there.

Well, the answer is through confession. This series is all about how our justice system has used confessions or rather false confession to lock behind innocent people. Through intense interrogation, psychological stressors, manipulation, and deprivation of sleep and even food, an interrogator can get a person to say whatever they want them too. Even if you truly believe you would not find yourself confessing to the very crime you know you did not commit, we all have a breaking point. All those showed in the show, hit that breaking point and in that moment, their lives changed forever.

Regardless of lack of physical evidence, merely circumstantial evidence, and air tight alibis, some of these individuals faced a guilty charge with a sentence to life and without the possibility of parole.

This strikes at the morality behind our justice system and the way it goes about interrogation. It is obviously wrong to manipulate people into a prison for the mere purpose of "justice."

If you're one who loves either documentaries or criminal stories and accounts, I recommend this great show as part of your weekend entertainment.