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Posts Tagged ‘Sunny Jacobs and Peter Pringle’

October 2, 2015 Wrongful Conviction Day: Articles and Videos

Posted by Writing PIs on October 2, 2015

Old Jail Cell on Route 66, Arizona, by Carol Highsmith (photo is in the public domain)

Old Jail Cell on Route 66, Arizona, by Carol Highsmith (photo is in the public domain)

Today, Oct 2, is Wrongful Conviction Day, an international day that recognizes those convicted for crimes they didn’t commit, their families and their advocates. It is a day devoted to educating the public about the causes, consequences and complications associated with wrongful convictions.

Articles and Videos

Wrongful Conviction Day – Videos: Interviews and speech excerpts with those falsely convicted for crimes they didn’t commit, including:

  • John Artis, co-accused and wrongly convicted with Rubin Hurricane Carter in 1966 and released from prison in 1981.
  • Sunny Jacobs & Peter Pringle, each wrongly convicted for crimes they didn’t commit. After being exonerated, they met at a talk Sunny Jacobs gave about her ordeal, which included her living in solitary for years. They fell in love, married, and now live in Canada, “at peace” with their past.

Barry Scheck Answers Questions About Wrongful Convictions (by Crime Traveller)

Resurrection, the story of Robert “Rider” Dewey who spent 17 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit (5280 Magazine)

At Defrosting Cold Cases, cold case blogger and human rights defender Alice de Sturler writes about the wrongful conviction of William Thomas Zeigler.

California Steps Up for the Wrongly Convicted Governor Jerry Brown signed into law California Senate Bill 618, which provides much-needed changes to the crippled compensation process for the wrongly convicted (California Innocence Project)

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