Some of the Dallas exonerees, from left to right: Claude A. Simmons Jr., Thomas McGowan, Christopher Scott, Johnnie Lindsey and Richard Miles. Photo by Sarah Lim.
Dallas is home to more than 40 exonerees; those are people who have been released from prison because they were proved innocent. These Dallas exonerees have formed a kind of club to help others as they’re released with the transition to life on the outside. And they’re now going beyond group therapy. They’re forming their own detective agency to find and free other innocents. You can listen to the radio feature that aired on NPR’s All Things Considered here:
I’ve been following this story for almost three years. It began as a feature for the Texas Observer, and is also the subject of a documentary film called , directed by Jamie Meltzer (I’m a producer on the film).
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