--- description: Several District Attorneys’ offices across the country have created Conviction Integrity Units (CIU) to investigate post conviction claims of innocence title: Why Some District Attorneys Are Trying to Prove Themselves Wrong image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ## Ideas Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Innovation](/tag/innovation/) ## Innovation Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Why Some District Attorneys Are Trying to Prove Themselves Wrong by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 3, 2015 4:01 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 3, 2015 4:01 PM CUT **1\.** [**Some district attorneys have dedicated units working to prove them wrong.**](http://www.thecrimereport.org/news/inside-criminal-justice/2015-07-freeing-the-wrongfully-convicted "undefined") By Nicole Porette with Dean Meminger in the Crime Report **2\.** [**Find out why the U.S. unskilled labor visa program is like a new American slavery.**](http://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicagarrison/the-new-american-slavery-invited-to-the-us-foreign-workers-f#.bxX1G5x7p "undefined") By Jessica Garrison, Ken Bensinger and Jeremy Singer-Vine in BuzzFeed **3\.** [**For Turkey, the fight against ISIS upends a fragile peace with the Kurds.**](http://www.psmag.com/politics-and-law/isis-turkeys-shadow-war-against-the-kurds "undefined") By Kaya Genç in Pacific Standard **4\.** [**The next billion entrepreneurs will be women.**](http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/07/21/the-next-billion-entrepreneurs-will-be-women/ "undefined") By Carol Leaman in the Next Web **5\.** [**What is your attention really worth?**](http://www.wnyc.org/story/how-can-we-stop-trading-attention-profit/ "undefined") By Manoush Zomorodi in Note to Self from WNYC  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/ "undefined") _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3982290/district-attorney-conviction-integrity-units/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3982290/district-attorney-conviction-integrity-units/"},"headline":"Why Some District Attorneys Are Trying to Prove Themselves Wrong","datePublished":"2015-08-03T16:01:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:02:12.098Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/3982290/district-attorney-conviction-integrity-units/","keywords":["Innovation","women","Crime","facebook","Immigration","ISIS"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3982290/district-attorney-conviction-integrity-units/","name":"Why Some District Attorneys Are Trying to Prove Themselves Wrong"}}]}] ```