if their offense was not sufficient to warrant holding in jail before the trial I think they should be let out on ankle bracelets or such.

The simple matter here is, the evidence was faulty. Hopefully no prosecutors were in on it, but if the evidence was used to convict then any conviction is suspect.

Numbers don't matter when justice is determined. The government should have better means to validate its employees are doing what they are supposed to do.

I would have liked to seen the Chemist sentenced to life, or at least the cumulative number of years of all sentences with tampered evidence.

[1] Laws are different in different places, but here I'm talking about actual sex offences, not things like public urination. (Which is gross, but usually not a sexual offence).

Every single fucking one.

If you have an alternate argument, I'd like to hear it.