For the wrongly incarcerated, release and exoneration is not always the happy ending to a tragedy — but the start of a new and trying journey. We examine some of these challenges as well as efforts to ease the road to freedom.
An earlier version of this story first aired June 17, 2004.
- Compensating the Exonerated, Frontline: Burden of Innocence
- PENAL CODE SECTION 4900-4906, California Penal Code, FindLaw
- Ca. Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board
- The Life After Exoneration Program, provides resources and support for the exonerated
- Full text of SB 1553, proposed legislation to provide material support for the eligible exonerated
- State Senate analysis of SB 1553
- The Innocence Project, “handles cases where postconviction DNA testing of evidence can yield conclusive proof of innocence.”
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