Wrongfully convicted Detroit man speaks out after 22 years in prison

A 47-year-old Detroit man, released from prison last week, is speaking out after spending over 22 years incarcerated for a crime he didn't commit.

• Oct 28, 2024

John Grisham on the wrongfully convicted: "It's not that difficult to convict an innocent person"

The bestselling author of legal thrillers has co-written a work of non-fiction: "Framed," a collection of stories about people wrongfully convicted of crimes, and the fight to exonerate them.

• Oct 20, 2024

Longest-serving death row inmate speaks out after murder acquittal

Iwao Hakamada, 88, was declared innocent of the quadruple murder that he spent 46 years on death row for.

• Sep 30, 2024

Life sentence vacated for Detroit man convicted in house fire that killed 2 people in 2012

A Detroit man who has spent the last 11 years in prison will be released after a judge vacated his convictions and sentences, officials said

• Jun 19, 2024

"They've left me behind," Paul Whelan says from inside Russian prison

American Paul Whelan, imprisoned in Russia for 5 years, says it's "unfathomable to me that they've left me behind."

• Dec 20, 2023

Detroit community leader once wrongfully convicted is set to become a police commissioner

America is the land of second chances, and one Detroit man is making the most of his.

• Dec 12, 2023

Detroit artist wrongfully imprisoned for decades becomes unlikely art phenom

Richard Phillips was arrested for murder in 1971 and exonerated in 2018 after 46 years of wrongful incarceration.

• Mar 17, 2023

Michigan man freed from prison after judge overturns convictions

Anthony Kyles, 54, left the Carson City Correctional Facility after an order from Oakland County Circuit Judge Daniel O'Brien threw out the convictions earlier in the day.

• Oct 13, 2022