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Louisiana Prison Writer Free After 44 Years

Loaded on Aug. 15, 2005 by Michael Rigby published in Prison Legal News August, 2005, page 30
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Criminal Prosecution, Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment, Death Penalty, Prisoner Media. Location: Louisiana.
Award-winning prison journalist and civil rights figure Wilbert Rideau, once described as “the most rehabilitated prisoner in America,” is free after spending more than four decades behind bars. Ironically, Rideau’s freedom came not from being exonerated, but from being found guilty a fourth time.

Rideau was a 19-year-old, virtually illiterate, ...

 

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