Surviving Justice: Americas Wrongfully Convicted and Incarcerated (Voice of Witness): America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated - Softcover

Voice Of Witness; Dave Eggers; Lola Vollen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1786632241 ISBN 13: 9781786632241

Publisher: Verso, 2017

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Lola Vollen is a physician specializing in the aftermath of large-scale human rights abuses. She has worked with survivors of systemic injustices in Somalia, South Africa, Israel, Croatia, and Kosovo. Working with Physicians for Human Rights, she developed Bosnia s mass-grave exhumation and identification program. She is the founder of the Life After Exoneration Program, which helps exonerated prisoners in the United States with their transitions after release. She is a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley s Institute of International Studies, co-editor of the Voice of Witness series, and a practicing clinician. Dave Eggers is the editor of McSweeney s and the author of four books, including What is the What and A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the winner of the Addison Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. As a journalist, his work has appeared in the the New Yorker, the New York Times, Esquire, the Guardian, and other publications. His first book of oral histories, Teachers Have It Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America s Teachers co-edited and co-written with Daniel Moulthrop and Ninive Calegari, appeared in July of 2005. In 2004 2005 he taught a course at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism with Lola Vollen, and co-founded the Voice of Witness series."

Edition details

• Publisher: Verso
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1786632241
• ISBN 13: 9781786632241
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512