Tag Archives: The Innocence Project

Two justice systems, one for the rich, one for the rest of us?

Another cliché I wish could be laid to rest (I’d say “killed,” but I am adamantly opposed to the death penalty). I’m highly sensitive to the gross injustices of wrongful convictions and imprisonments thanks to the Innocence Project, on the … Continue reading

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Herman Atkins, the Innocence Project and a paperweight

When I read the Publisher’s Marketplace notice below, I popped up from my desk chair and walked around the room, in a sort of uncontainable excitement: Herman Atkins’s WRONGFULLY CONVICTED, RIGHTFULLY COMMITTED, the true story of the author, who spent … Continue reading

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