They aren’t going away.  Fifteen months after Metro Times exposed coerced confessions and illegally destroyed criminal files, exonerees and families of people still locked up are demanding action and a face-to-face meeting with Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy.  In July 2024, Metro Times revealed widespread misconduct tied to now-retired Detroit homicide Detective Barbara Simon and […]

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A civil rights complaint is urging the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate Detroit’s wrongful convictions and Wayne County’s illegal record purge that advocates say landed numerous innocent people in prison and blocked exonerations.  In a letter sent to the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, Freedom Ain’t Free, a Detroit-based nonprofit led by two exonerees, is […]

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