After Innocence

These unlucky victims clearly have a lot to give and their stories are riveting and deeply moving.

Nick Yarris, for instance gives devastating testimony, revisiting his old childhood taunts and explaining how that makes him feel like "a ghost in my own life" after 23 years on Death Row. "I remember when I first got out of prison how loud the world was… the smell… the sound of tires on the road! … I had been breathing re-filtered air for 23 years, so it was hurting me to even breathe…"

Denied a support network and compensation
It’s unutterably sad to see the middle aged men returning to the houses of their now elderly parents, with hardly an apology from the people who incarcerated them for so long. Indeed, unlike men on parole, there is no official support network for wrongly convicted prisoners. In most states they get no compensation, no training and no help back into society. They are literally thrown out on the streets, their problems compounded by the fact that their records are not expunged. Their convictions for crimes of which they were innocent still appear on records visible to prospective employers.