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The Fight for Justice: Exonerees and the Battle for Fair Reentry Support

The Shattering Reality of Wrongful Convictions

In a powerful and emotional recounting, Shaurn reflects on a moment that forever changed his life—the moment he realized he was about to spend the rest of his life behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit. His words paint a vivid picture: “I was young, like, for someone to just snatch your freedom from you… everything just stopped.” He describes the suffocating experience of confinement, recalling the sobering moment when the prison doors refused to open and he had to confront the painful truth: his freedom had been taken from him unjustly.