After Innocence

Wed 17 Jan 2007
Heart-rending documentary about the lives of men wrongly imprisoned for crimes that new DNA evidence has proved they did not commit.

In the past ten years new DNA technology has enabled more than 150 innocent men to regain their freedom in the US. It's a heartening statistic, especially in an era when so many other civil rights are being eroded, but it begs two very disturbing questions: How does it feel to have lost the best part of your life because of a crime you did not commit? And how many more guiltless men are currently languishing in American jails?

Between them Dennis Maher, Calvin Willis, Jeffrey Scott Hornoff, Wilton Dedge, Vincent Moto, Nick Yarris and Herman Atkins served 123 years in prison for crimes they did not commit, several of them enduring much of that time in solitary confinement. Remarkably, they seem determined to put the past behind them, move on, and, most important of all, help other people in similar situations escape their confinements too.