We claim justice for all, but it's justice for some that turn my pain into passion and my passion into purpose.
Tens of thousands of people incarcerated in the US have been wrongfully convicted and are being held in captivity even as they adamantly maintain their innocence, and there is a ripple effect to that injustice, which impacts families, communities, and generations.
Without a strong support system.
Is so hard.
He's so hard, you can just ride away.
I'm Lauren Bright Pacheco, Emmy Award winning producer and host of podcasts like Murder and Oregon and Symptomatic, and I'm joining the Wrongful Conviction Team to bring you ten intensely inspiring episodes that celebrate the potential of human connection, relationships that empowered ordinary people to overcome extraordinary odds and injustices.
It was tough. Not a day that went by that is this the day that I'm going to die in prison?
Individuals who unexpectedly became one another's personal heroes by turning tragedy into triumph.
Would have been easy for my parents to just wash their hands of it and give up.
They weren't going to let me do that. They're my heroes.
Join me starting this May twenty seventh for Wrongful Conviction with Lauren Bright Pacheco and experience the life altering impact compassion can have on injustice with the people who survived it because of one another.
She's been my voice, She's been there every step by the way I.
Have to be as advocate. I have to find different ways of fighting. Get those doors open.
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