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South Africa: Wrongfully Convicted Men Struggle to Get Compensation

"The state arrested me unlawfully and they don't care about how my life is affected" "The state arrested me unlawfully and now release me and they don't care about how my life is affected by this," sa... read more

How A Wrongly Imprisoned Maryland Man Got His Life Back

And like the late, long-incarcerated South African ... get a new law passed last session - one that would allow exonerees to bypass a pardon and get compensation from the state. Exoneration, which is ... read more

Mondli Makhanya: In the company of MaThousand

Well, he should be very afraid because he was the most corruptible public official in post-apartheid South Africa and because – if he is convicted ... get drunk until they bare their bottoms). The pra... read more

Jon Burge, Torturer of Over 100 Black Men, Is Out of Prison After Less Than Four Years

Today, former Chicago police commander Jon Burge, who was convicted of lying about torturing over 100 African-American men at stationhouses on Chicago’s South and West Sides ... Burge torture survivor... read more

Victims of a racist witch hunt

A just-released film tells the long-overdue story of the five young men charged and wrongfully convicted in the jogger's rape ... How can people support your case and get involved in the struggle? GO ... read more

Middle East and North Africa in turmoil

Last month she was convicted ... held across the Middle East and North Africa for more than a month. Despite pleas by the government and Shiite religious leaders for Iraqis to stay home, demonstration... read more

Brian Bowen's Lawsuit Against Adidas and What It Means for All Sides of the NCAA Corruption Case

These questions lie at the heart of a new lawsuit filed by former high school basketball phenom Brian Bowen in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina ... professionals who were rec... read more

LIFE AFTER DEATH ROW: The resurrection of Damon Thibodeaux

“I could get ... those wrongfully convicted should be compensated for the time they lost and the anguish they endured, said Thibodeaux, who has filed lawsuits seeking compensation in both state and fe... read more

Ken Burns and Yusef Salaam Talk THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE; Plus Burns Talks Upcoming Projects like THE ROOSEVELTS, JACKIE ROBINSON and VIETNAM

The Central Park Five is a compelling documentary from award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns about the five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem who were wrongly convicted ... in the South just before y... read more

Swaziland: Ex-Miners Fight for Justice

Cebisamadoda Nxumalo, coordinator of the Swaziland National Ex-Mineworkers Association (SNEMA), is speaking on the role of SNEMA in a broader struggle ... these wrongfully conceived perceptions.' Many ... read more

We must fully unpack the complicated evils of our justice system in order to build the sophisticated solutions we need

For the first 400 years on this land, prisoners were primarily white — that was in the North, South, East ... and this nation’s first generation of wrongly charged and convicted African Americans was ... read more

Wrongfully convicted men struggle to get compensation

Mulaudzi was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for murder ... Criminal law expert William Booth says, “In general people who sue the state for compensation struggle to get payment from the ... read more