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Exonerated Ex-Inmates Struggle to Shed Stigma

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That's the title of an article in today's Washington Post reported by Peter Slevin and Kari Lydersen.  LINKPollock's predicament is becoming more common across the country as more people are exonerated. The New York-based Innocence Project has tallied 215 wrongful convictions in the United States that have been reversed on the basis of DNA evidence. Many of those former prisoners are seeking redress from the governments that mistakenly jailed them -- but they are kept waiting, whether because of the slow pace of bureaucracy or a lack of procedures or political will to handle their cases. When the authorities do not certify innocence, "in effect, the sentence just goes on," said Stephen Saloom, policy director of the Innocence Project...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 28, 2008 (boomark / email).