Sentence examples for making false confessions from inspiring English sources

The detainees told British authorities that they had been coerced into making false confessions.

Prisoners were accused of being enemies of the regime, and many were tortured into making false confessions.

Putting the wrong person in prison almost always requires more than a single overzealous detective, a mistaken eyewitness, or a suspect pushed into making false confessions.

Mr. Schrier said his captors accused him and his cellmate of working for the C.I.A., and coerced them into making false confessions, once while wearing orange jumpsuits and being videotaped.

The C.I.A. contracted out its inhumanity to nations with no respect for life or law, sending prisoners — some of them innocents kidnapped on street corners and in airports — to be tortured into making false confessions, or until it was clear they had nothing to say and so were let go without any apology or hope of redress.

He claimed to witness summary executions, and said he believed some of the people being interrogated were civilians with no ties to the Islamic State who were being coerced into making false confessions.

These practices appear to be the norm despite studies that have shown that up to 44percentt of exonerated juveniles had made false confessions, with one group of exonerated 12 to 15-year-olds falsely confessing at even higher rates.

Intuition holds that the innocent do not make false confessions.

"James Rosemond went in and made false confessions and false accusations," Mr. Shargel said.

"Authorities reportedly forced them to make false confessions before their release".

And yet it's clear that people do make false confessions.