How many thousands of others still languish?
On the day Bill Cosby is released from prison on a technicality you may be cynical about lawyers and judges and the justice system, and for good reason. But here’s an incredible story about an innocent Black man being exonerated that will make your heart swell, at least for a moment — until you think about all the others languishing in jail who don’t have the money or the good luck to have lawyers and advocates who can challenge their unfair sentences.
Emily Bazelon and her lawyer sister deserve all the plaudits for this one. It’s called,
I Write About the Law. But Could I Really Help Free a Prisoner? For years as a journalist, I’ve covered attempts to exonerate incarcerated people. But a letter from Yutico Briley led to a different kind of story.
Read it. It’s an amazing piece of writing and an amazing story. Our system of justice is so very broken in so many ways.
This story made me think of this: