'Exonerated Five' Member Yusef Salaam
Podcast |
Fresh Air
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NPR
WHYY
Media Type |
audio
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Publication Date |
May 26, 2021
Episode Duration |
00:46:38
In 1990, Yusef Salaam was one of the five boys wrongly convicted in the so-called Central Park jogger case. Salaam spent nearly 7 years behind bars and wasn't exonerated until 2002, when a serial rapist confessed to the crime. "When the truth came out, that's when we got our lives back," Salaam says. "But for those of us who had five to 10 years prison sentences, we had done all of someone else's time. ... We will never know what our life would have been like had we not gone through this horrible experience." Salaam tells his story in his memoir 'Better, Not Bitter.' And podcast critic Nick Quah reviews a stunning new series called 'The Line.'

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