The January 2011 issue of the ABA Journal includes an article on the nearly insurmountable problems faced by the exonerated after they are released from prison. They often have no job, no place to live, and no health insurance. They have a 10-, 15-, 20-year gap in their résumés, and the skills they had before prison have long since atrophied. The world moved on while they were in prison, but they have not. And there is little help for them to adjust – much less than if they had actually committed the crime for which they were convicted.
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