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.