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If you like #truecrime you might enjoy this read on the incarceration of an innocent man in North Carolina and a history of the Innocence Project and the work they do to help wrongly convicted people.

Ghost of the Innocent Man
Elly Griffiths
General Hospital (I don't watch too much anymore but I started watching it with my babysitter decades ago!)
Green beans

I almost forgot!

#ManicMonday @JoScho

This book is the dual story of the creation of North Carolina's Innocence Inquiry Commission, the first state agency of its kind, and that of Willie Grimes, one of the wrongfully convicted people the commission freed. Reading this made me anxious even though I knew the outcome. It made me proud of North Carolina for establishing this commission, which was established in 2006 and has resulted in 10 exonerations so far. #nonfiction2018

I'm picking two answers for #favoritegenre -- narrative nonfiction and mystery. These are my current or most recent reads in both styles. #readingresolutions @Jess7

The prompt #Freedom for #readingResolutions day 2 made me think of this nonfiction book about a case handled by the North Carolina Center for Actual Innocence, which works to bring freedom to people who have been wrongfully convicted. @Jess7

I just put this on hold at the library, after hearing the story on the Criminal Podcast. This is about a wrongfully convicted man in North Carolina (my home state) and the effort by the NC Center for Actual Innocence to free him. Here's a link to the podcast: http://www.thisiscriminal.com/episode-80-photo-hair-fingerprint-12-1-2017/

After reading this book, it makes me wonder why more states don't follow after North Carolina.

Another gut wrenching book about a man completely failed by our justice system for 24 years. There were so many moments in this book that made me want to scream with anger and frustration but looking at the world through Willie's forgiving eyes was a lesson to me. I highly recommend this one.

There was a knocking at her door.

#firstlineofcurrentread #anditsaugust

It's been weeks since I finished this book, and I'm still thinking about it. It's heartbreaking and horrifying. It's about a man wrongly convicted of a crime because the system failed him again and again. Reading the psychologist's reports about how Grimes was failing to adapt to prison, wasn't sleeping or eating, and how he'd be better once he admitted his guilt, made me cry. Reading books like this put life in perspective. We are very lucky.