exonerations

Two decades in prison is a long time to go without a paycheck. For parents, that's also 20 years of missed childhood moments. Edward Ates feels the full…

Matthew Charles served two decades in prison, was released, but then was resentenced and sent back to prison for another decade. The new criminal justice reform law means he can be released again.

Artist Julie Green, who also depicts the final meals of death row inmates, is now painting first meals of exonerees. The food is celebratory, but nothing compared to all those lost years, she says.

The statistics are startling: If you’re a black man in America, you’re five times as likely to go to state prison as a white man. Latinos and African…

A man who spent almost 19 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit was declared innocent in a Tarrant County courtroom on Wednesday.John Nolley, now…

Christopher Scott served over a decade in prison, and there he developed a passion for soap operas. Now free, he still keeps his appointment with General Hospital.

John Nolley always insisted he didn't kill his friend.He spent nearly 19 years locked up for the gruesome murder. Then, a judge released him from prison,…

A new study has found that Harris County leads the country in exonerations, turning loose 48 people in 2016 alone. That's because its crime labs take an…

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Richard Miles remembers when his trial began in Dallas County District Court. It was 1995, and he was barely 20 years old. He thought for sure it’d be the…

In 1987, Michael Morton was sentenced to life in prison for murdering his wife – a crime he didn’t commit. He served 25 years before having his conviction…

Filmmaker Jamie Meltzer thought he’d just go check out a Dallas meeting for prison exonerees last February. He’d heard a group of freed inmates had…