Surviving Justice
America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated
Published on 1. August 2017
496 pages
978-1-78663-222-7 (ISBN)
Description
Surviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated presents oral histories of thirteen people from all walks of life, who, through a combination of all-too-common factors-overzealous prosecutors, inept defense lawyers, coercive interrogation tactics, eyewitness misidentification-found themselves imprisoned for crimes they did not commit. The stories these exonerated men and women tell are spellbinding, heartbreaking, and ultimately inspiring.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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ISBN-13
978-1-78663-222-7 (9781786632227)
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Dave Eggers is the author of six previous books, including Zeitoun and A Hologram for the King. He is the founder and editor of McSweeney's, an independent publishing house based in San Francisco that produces a quarterly journal (Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern), and a monthly magazine (The Believer). In 2002, he co-founded 826 Valencia, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center for youth. In 2004, Eggers co-founded the Voice of Witness book series with Dr. Lola Vollen.
Lola Vollen is a scholar, human rights activist, and co-founder of Voice of Witness. In addition to editing Surviving Justice, she also edited Voice of Witness title Voices from the Storm: The People of New Orleans on Hurricane Katrina and Its Aftermath.
Scott Turow is a writer and attorney. He is the author of ten best-selling works of fiction, including Presumed Innocent, Innocent, and Identical. His works of non-fiction include One L, and Ultimate Punishment, a reflection on the death penalty. His writing has been featured in The New York Times, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Playboy and The Atlantic. His books have won a number of literary awards, including the Heartland Prize in 2003 for Reversible Errors, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award in 2004 for Ultimate Punishment and Time Magazine's Best Work of Fiction, 1999 for Personal Injuries.
Lola Vollen is a scholar, human rights activist, and co-founder of Voice of Witness. In addition to editing Surviving Justice, she also edited Voice of Witness title Voices from the Storm: The People of New Orleans on Hurricane Katrina and Its Aftermath.
Scott Turow is a writer and attorney. He is the author of ten best-selling works of fiction, including Presumed Innocent, Innocent, and Identical. His works of non-fiction include One L, and Ultimate Punishment, a reflection on the death penalty. His writing has been featured in The New York Times, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Playboy and The Atlantic. His books have won a number of literary awards, including the Heartland Prize in 2003 for Reversible Errors, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award in 2004 for Ultimate Punishment and Time Magazine's Best Work of Fiction, 1999 for Personal Injuries.
Content
- Intro
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Christopher Ochoa: My Life Is a Broken Puzzle
- Juan Melendez: My Mama Didn't Raise No Killers
- Gary Gauger: I Stepped Into a Dream
- James Newsome: I Am the Expert
- Calvin Willis: Thank God for DNA
- John Stoll: If a Five-Year-Old Did It, You Did It
- Beverly Monroe: Now I Question Everything
- Michael Evans and Paul Terry: Sheep Among Wolves
- David Pope: Flowers in Your Hair
- Joseph Amrine: I'm a Dead Man Walking
- Peter Rose: Family Man
- Kevin Green: Bad Things Happen to Good People
- Exoneree Roundtable: People Don't Know How Lucky They Are to Have Their Liberty
- Notes
- A Note about Methodology
- Appendices
- Appendix A: Causes of Wrongful Conviction
- Appendix B: The Prison Experience
- Appendix C: Life After Exoneration
- Appendix D: Supplementary Material
- Glossary
- About the Editors
