Did you see the NY Times article, "Free and Uneasy" about Jeffrey Deskovic? He was convicted of rape and murder and served 16 years, only to be exonerated by DNA evidence.
My heart broke with the whole story. What can truly compensate a man for all that he's lost in a wrongful capital conviction?
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I don't think that anything could truly compensate for 16 years of false imprisonment. . . . I would have thought, though, that there would be some attempt made to help reacclimate him? And would there not be any sort of compensation? The article shows him as very much on his own with not a whole lot of resources. . . . And I don't know that anyone would expect that our penal system would turn 17 year old young men into productive, well-adjusted, citizens after 16 years of their ministrations. . . .
What a horror. . . .
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