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How Many Innocent People Are in Prison?
Please go to the Mother Jones website to see the full multimedia treatment, including an interactive map of exonerations nationwide. January/February 2012 Before we talk about how many people may be...
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No Country for Innocent Men
January/February 2012 “Dear Mr. Cole,” the letter began. “My name is Jerry Wayne Johnson. I’m presently a Texas prisoner. You may recall my name from your 1986 rape trial in Lubbock.” Ruby Session was...
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Who Shot Valerie Finley?
This story was runner-up for the 2013 John Jay/H. F. Guggenheim Prize for Excellence in Criminal Justice Reporting. March/April 2013 The call came into the Prichard Police Department at 11:20 on...
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Weak Convictions
March 26, 2013 After serving more than twenty years in a maximum security New York state prison for a murder he did not commit, David Ranta walked free on Friday. “To say that I’m sorry for what you...
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Rehabilitation, Remorse, and Innocence
September 23, 2013 The day Rodney Stanberry went up for parole, he wasn’t even there. It was August 28, and Rodney was in Atmore, Alabama, mowing the grass on the side of the road with some city...
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