Surviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated

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    Editor(s): Dave Eggers, Lola Vollen

    Publisher: Verso

    Year: 2017

    Format: Paperback

    Size: 496 pages

    ISBN: 9781786632241

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Innocent, but imprisoned—troubling stories of wrongful conviction Surviving Justice presents oral histories of thirteen people from all walks of life, who, through a combination of all-too-common factors— overzealous prosecutors, inept defense lawyers, coercive interrogation tactics, eyewitness misidentification—found themselves imprisoned for crimes they did not commit. The stories these exonerated men and women tell are spellbinding, heartbreaking, and ultimately inspiring.

Among the narrators:

Paul Terry, who spent twenty-seven years wrongfully imprisoned, and emerged psychologically devastated and barely able to communicate.

Beverly Monroe, an organic chemist who was coerced into falsely confessing to the murder of her lover. Freed after seven years, she faces the daunting task of rebuilding her life from the ground up.

Joseph Amrine, who was sentenced to death for murder. Seventeen years later, when DNA evidence exonerated him, Amrine emerged from prison with nothing but the fourteen dollars in his inmate account.

Book Details

Editor: Dave Eggers
Editor: Lola Vollen
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781786632241
Size: 496 pages
Publisher: Verso
Year: 2017

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