Jacques mentors in juvenile detention
Exoneree Jacques Rivera goes to Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center to talk to youth about their wishes for the future.
Exoneree Jacques Rivera goes to Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center to talk to youth about their wishes for the future.
‘Antione can be a little bit of a dreamer.‘
Antione’s band had a simple name and premise: Exoneree Band, formerly incarcerated and exonerated guys.
After all the lights and the cameras shut down, life as an exoneree begins.
What do you think contributes to violence?
“They were young when I left them, so they really don’t know me and I don’t know them.”
Nine months after earning his certificate of innocence, Jacques still hadn’t seen a dime of compensation.
“The days in front of me are a lot shorter than the ones behind me. I ain’t got time for nothing but moving forward.”
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While men and women count themselves among the lawyers and crusaders who free the innocent, exonerated American women are few – 111 in all.