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  • Exoneree Diaries: The Fight for Innocence, Independence, and Identity

    (By Alison Flowers)

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    Author Alison Flowers
    “Book Descriptions: Through intimate portraits of four exonerated prisoners, journalist Alison Flowers explores what happens to innocent people when the state flings open the jailhouse door and tosses them back, empty-handed, into the unknown. From the frontlines of the wrongful conviction capital of the United States—Cook County, Illinois—these stories reveal serious gaps in the criminal justice system. Flowers depicts the collateral damage of wrongful convictions on families and communities, challenging the deeper problem of mass incarceration in the United States. As she tells each exoneree's powerful story, Flowers vividly shows that release from prison, though sometimes joyous and hopeful, is not a Hollywood ending—or an ending at all. Rather, an exoneree's first unshackled steps are the beginning of a new journey full of turmoil and triumph.

    Based on Chicago Public Media WBEZ's yearlong multimedia series—a finalist for a national Online Journalism Award—this narrative piece of investigative journalism tells profoundly human stories of reclaiming one's life, overcoming adversity, and searching for purpose—at times with devastating consequences and courageous breakthroughs.

    Alison Flowers is an award-winning investigative journalist who focuses on social and criminal justice. In 2013, she produced a multimedia series about exonerees for Chicago Public Media and NPR affiliate WBEZ. The yearlong project was a finalist for a national Online Journalism Award. A former TV reporter, Flowers has also written for the Village Voice, VICE News, and others. She lives in Chicago, Illinois.”

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