Individuals are labelled by others as guilty

Individuals feel shame, blame, and guilt

Individuals display depressive episodes during and post imprisonment with suicidal thoughts

Individuals experience anxiety and panic disorders

Individuals experience PTSD from the trauma of being wrongfully accused and imprisoned

Individuals experience disrupted sleep, insomnia, and nightmares

Individuals become socially withdrawn and isolated out of fear of being a burden

Individuals lose their social networks, friends and relationships

Individuals' families experience secondary trauma and social rejection

Wrongful convictions deprives the individuals of the opportunity to live out their lives as they are forced to serve a sentence meant for someone else. Often, these individuals spend decades in prison, and only if they are lucky, will they be exonerated. Even when exonerated, they receive inadequate support in order to reintegrate into society, amplifying the negative effects of a wrongful conviction.

Wrongful convictions serve absolutely no purpose in keeping community safer and does not rehabilitate those who did in fact commit the crime; if anything, they do the exact opposite.