When You Get Out of Jail, What Happens Next?

The Leonard Lopate Show | Sep 9, 2015

New York magazine contributing editor Jada Yuan talks about her profiles of men who were exonerated after spending decades in prison, and what their first week on the outside was like. We will also be speaking to some of the recently exonerated men. Alan Newton spent 22 years in prison. Jeff Deskovic spent 16 years in prison. David McCallum was imprisoned for 29 years. 

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