Yusef Salaam with The Marshall Project from The New Yorker

Yusef Salaam, who was wrongly convicted and imprisoned as one of the “Central Park Five,” details how his life was turned upside down one day in 1989 — and how he felt when the charges were dropped decades later.

“We Are Witnesses”: A Portrait of Crime and Punishment in America

Director: Jenny Carchman

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