Life after Exoneration

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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. Life After Exoneration is the first book in the Voice of Witness Project series of oral history narratives, a joint project between McSweeney's and the U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.


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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. Life After Exoneration is the first book in the Voice of Witness Project series of oral history narratives, a joint project between McSweeney's and the U. C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.


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