Caminhos of the Reportage tells stories of people who have been wrongfully detained.

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Caminhos of the Reportage tells stories of people who have been wrongfully detained.

Misrecognition of suspects is one of the main causes of imprisonment of innocent people in criminal proceedings. More than 80 percent of the victims of this type of misrecognition are black men, according to research by the Rio de Janeiro Public Prosecutor's Office, which is the state with the largest number of publicly filed cases. The majority of 65 first-instance pardoned for failing to do so between January and June 2021 passed, on average, …