Criminal injustice
(12/01/05 5:00am)
Documentarian Jessica Sanders' film After Innocence follows the lives of nine wrongfully convicted prisoners who, after years of false imprisonment, are released with the help of newly introduced DNA evidence. The stories of these men are moving, and the vibrancy of their characters in spite of years of torment is inspirational. They not only face the traumas of prison, but even after exoneration are subject to the same struggles of reintegration that face any released prisoner. Their records are not expunged, they receive no compensation and few get even a simple apology.