Surviving Justice America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated
by Dave Eggers, Lola Vollen, Scott Turow
On September 30, 2003, Calvin was declared innocent and set free from Angola State Prison, after serving 22 years for a crime he did not commit. Like many other exonerees, Calvin experienced a new world that was not open to him. Hitting the streets without housing, money, or a change of clothes, exonerees across America are released only to fend for themselves. In the tradition of Studs Terkel's oral histories, this book collects the voices and stories of the exonerees for whom life — inside and out — is forever framed by extraordinary injustice
HistorySocial History
RELEASED2015
PUBLISHERMcSweeney's
LENGTH489
LANGUAGEEN
Surviving Justice America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated
by Dave Eggers, Lola Vollen, Scott Turow
On September 30, 2003, Calvin was declared innocent and set free from Angola State Prison, after serving 22 years for a crime he did not commit. Like many other exonerees, Calvin experienced a new world that was not open to him. Hitting the streets without housing, money, or a change of clothes, exonerees across America are released only to fend for themselves. In the tradition of Studs Terkel's oral histories, this book collects the voices and stories of the exonerees for whom life — inside and out — is forever framed by extraordinary injustice
HistorySocial History
RELEASED2015
PUBLISHERMcSweeney's
LENGTH489
LANGUAGEEN