Update...I just received a copy of a publication that contained a full account of the release of the innocent inmate. Apparently it was part of a nation wide project called "The Innocence Project" targeted at employing DNA evidence to exonerate wrongfully convicted inmates.

The original project was started in l992 at the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law by Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld. It has spawned more than thirty other innocence projects which have resulted in the exoneration of more than 180 wrongfully convicted inmates.

More than twenty states and the federal government have compensation programs for wrongfully convicted individuals. Interestingly, Connecticut is not one of them. Yet the state felt compelled to offer $500,000.00 in compensation to the released inmate in question.

The inmate is a deeply religious man. He has since taken employment counseling teenage offenders, and is currently scheduled for a number of speaking engagements in which he urges them to make the right choices. He was motivated to embark on this course by the number of youthful offenders he observed during his internment in prison. He is recently quoted as saying ..."I can't dwell on what happened because that doesn't get me anywhere. I'd rather do what I can to help these kids."

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