The problem is when you're innocent and still get punished anyway.
And again, in the real world, there are maybe hundreds of people suffering public outrage even though they are innocent, and there are tens of thousands of people who are serving extremely harsh sentences for minor crimes. The first is regrettable, the second is a major societal issue.
The US justice system is built on this foundation of letting the guilty go if it means avoiding a single innocent from being wrongfully convicted. Now you might say that social outrage isn't a big deal but considering the permanent nature of the internet and pervasiveness of social media, it's the same branding as a ex-con, if not worse since govt records at least have some controls on who can see them.
I agree that criminal sentencing and prison reform is needed, but that's a different discussion compared to how we treat the innocent.
However, hundreds of thousands of people are suffering from vastly over-exaggerated punishment for minor crimes. Even more, the current political climate suggests that some of what these people did should not have been illegal in the first place (e.g. Marijuana use and distribution). Worse still, there is discretionary, racist enforcement of many of these laws, disproportionately affecting some communities and not others.
Individually, suffering from being falsely accused of a crime is much worse than being punished excessively for a crime you did commit.
But overall, people losing jobs and status is a much smaller problem to society todyay than excessive enforcement of minor crimes.