Six laws. One purpose.

DNA testing has freed thousands of wrongfully convicted men. It has freed almost no women — because there is no DNA to test in a case where no crime occurred. Yet that is exactly the kind of case in which most innocent women are imprisoned.

Existing Conviction Integrity Units, when they exist at all, are built around DNA case review pipelines. They are not staffed, trained, or resourced for the medical-evidence reanalysis, witness-recantation review, and conflict-of-interest investigation that no-crime cases require. This act creates units that are.

False confessions are the second-most-common cause of wrongful conviction in cases where DNA later exonerates the defendant. A confession that an innocent person gave under hours of pressure looks identical, in a transcript, to a true admission. The only reliable way to tell them apart is to see them happen.

Partial recording — the practice of capturing only the final, summary statement — is the worst of both worlds: it manufactures the appearance of due process while concealing the coercion that produced the statement. This act ends it.

A woman who reports a sexual assault and is then charged with perjury for the report — while the documented perpetrator is fired by his employer for the same conduct she described — is not a fact pattern that should require new law to redress. And yet it does.

This act names the practice, criminalizes the practice, and creates a private right of action against the officials who commit it. The corroborating evidence in such cases is, by definition, in the prosecutor's own file. The act requires that the prosecutor look at it before the indictment goes to the grand jury.

Most state systems guarantee counsel at trial and on direct appeal — and then, when the deadlines for those have run, leave the wrongfully convicted to fend for themselves. The result is predictable. Habeas petitions are filed in handwriting, on lined paper, without access to the trial transcript. They lose. The conviction stands.

This act extends the right to counsel through every collateral proceeding in which a constitutional violation may be raised — and through every appeal from the denial of one. Competence is defined by an experience standard, not just a license.

When the day-after-sentencing destruction of evidence in a single defendant's case among thirty handled by the same prosecutor draws no inquiry — when a Pre-Sentence Investigation cites a psychiatrist who has never been licensed in the state and is never corrected — when an appellate opinion quotes a confession the trial transcript does not contain — these are not edge cases. They are the conditions that produce a wrongful conviction and lock it in place.

This act creates a specific procedure for the immediate correction of false statements in any judicial filing, opinion, or pre-sentence document, on motion by any party. It establishes referral to disciplinary authorities and, in the case of intentional misrepresentation, criminal liability. It applies to officials and to the corporate entities — surveillance providers, forensic labs, retained counsel — that operate alongside them.

An exonerated woman is, on the day she walks out of the courthouse, in a worse legal posture for support than a paroled one. She has no parole officer with a referral list. She has no halfway-house spot reserved. Many states pay statutory compensation only after years of additional litigation; fourteen states have no compensation statute at all.

This act establishes a federal minimum floor: every exoneree receives, at the moment of release, the same coordinated reentry support the system provides to parolees. Compensation is paid promptly and in full, and is in addition to reentry support — not in lieu of it.