By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia Yusef Salaam, a man who endured wrongful imprisonment, has launched a campaign for a seat on the New York City Council. Widely recognized for the unjust ordeal that altered the trajectory of his life, Salaam now aspires to join the very power structure that once […]
After Serving Nine Years in Prison for a Quadruple Murder He Didn’t Commit, Davontae Sanford Is Finally Free
By Tatyana Hopkins (NNPA/DTU Fellow) The lawyers of wrongfully convicted Davontae Sanford said it was clear from the beginning that he was innocent and his confession was false. Megan Crane, Sanford’s lawyer, said that “police practices that are widely inappropriate for vulnerable juvenile suspects and a criminal justice system that systemically failed him at every […]