Reading and writing have been powerful tools for many people who were wrongly convicted; Yusef Salaam, an Innocence Project board member and one of the Exonerated Five, agrees.
Yusef, with Ibi Zoboi, recently co-authored Punching the Air, a young adult novel about a wrongly convicted teen.
Next week, both Yusef and Ibi will join Nigel Quiroz, the Innocence Project's field organizer, for a live discussion on Facebook about the book and how to get involved in youth advocacy against wrongful conviction. You don’t want to miss it.
The Innocence Project exonerates the wrongly convicted through DNA testing and reforms the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice. www.innocenceproject.org
