Exonerated Convicts Find Freedom Is Tough
At least 35 former convicts have been exonerated through the efforts of the Innocence Project at Cardozo Law School and the DNA Identification Technology and Human Rights Center of Berkeley. But some of them have found life on the outside challenging after years of incarceration. "'We were getting all these people out of prison, but we found most of them were having tremendous difficulty with life on the street,' said Peter Neufeld, a co-founder of the Innocence Project, which provides legal assistance to prisoners seeking to prove their innocence through DNA testing." Now the two programs will jointly run the "Life After Exoneration Project" to help those they have freed adjust to freedom, it says here. [In case you've been feeling remiss about your recent level of charitable giving, you can find out how to support the Innocence Project here.]