imprison wrongly

Frequency: 6.58.5 per million words

To put an innocent person in prison as a punishment for a crime they did not commit.

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  • Many innocent people have been wrongly imprisoned for crimes they did not commit.
  • The court admitted it had wrongly imprisoned him for nearly a decade.
  • No one should ever be wrongly imprisoned due to flawed evidence.
  • They fought for justice after their son was wrongly imprisoned by the corrupt regime.
  • New DNA evidence proved that the suspect had been wrongly imprisoned for murder.
  • To wrongly imprison an individual is a grave miscarriage of justice and a violation of human rights.
  • Activists are campaigning for those who were wrongly imprisoned to be immediately released.
  • The legal system must prevent authorities from wrongly imprisoning innocent citizens.
  • He spent over twenty years wrongly imprisoned before his name was finally cleared.
  • How can we improve our judicial process to ensure that no one is ever wrongly imprisoned again?