Rectify: The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful Conviction

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A powerful argument for adopting a model of restorative justice as part of the Innocence Movement8212 so exonerees, crime victims, and their communities can come together to heal In Rectify, a former Innocence Project director and journalist Lara Bazelon puts a face to the growing number of men and women exonerated from crimes that kept them behind bars for years8212 sometimes decades8212 and that devastate not only the exonerees but also their families, the crime victims who mistakenly identified them as perpetrators, the jurors who convicted them, and the prosecutors who realized too late that they helped convict an innocent person Bazelon focuses on Thomas Haynesworth, a teenager arrested for multiple rapes in Virginia, and Janet Burke, a rape victim who mistakenly IDed him It took over two decades before he was exonerated Conventional wisdom points to an exoneration as a happy ending to tragic tales of injustice, such as Haynesworth8217 s However, even when the ph

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