Law enforcement agencies across the United States commonly use a complex psychological tactic during police interrogations to get suspects to confess to crimes. Over the years, behind closed doors, in rooms devoid of recording devices, trained interrogators have been monumentally successful at getting defendants to confess, often without regard for whether or not the suspect is actually guilty. Experts say that under the right conditions, anyone could be compelled to make a false confession to a crime they have not committed. As unthinkable as it may seem, ordinary individuals, innocent but vulnerable to manipulative police interrogation techniques, regularly fall prey to this fate.

FALSE CONFESSIONS follows defense attorney Jane Fisher-Byrialsen as she fights to put an end to this institutionalized injustice. Through the stories of four of her cases, all involving false confessions, the film examines the psychological aspect of how people end up confessing to crimes they have not committed as well as the consequences of these confessions - for those accused, for their families and for society at large.

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