When Innocence Isn’t Enough: How Georgia’s System Turns Pretrial Detention Into a Machine for Guilty Pleas
Sandeep Bharadia’s exoneration after 20 years exposes Georgia’s deeper crisis: most wrongful convictions never reach trial. Dangerous jails, unaffordable bail, and prosecutorial overcharging turn pretrial detention into a machine that coerces guilty pleas—even from the innocent.