Bibliograph

Type

Label

Good kids, bad city, a story of race and wrongful conviction in America, Kyle Swenson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Good kids, bad city

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1039209252

Responsibility statement

Kyle Swenson

Sub title

a story of race and wrongful conviction in America

Summary

Documents the true story of one of the longest wrongful imprisonment cases in U.S. history, detailing how three African-American men were incarcerated for nearly four decades before a questionable witness recanted his testimony"From award-winning investigative journalist Kyle Swenson, the true story of one of the longest wrongful imprisonments in the United States to end in exoneration, and a critical social and political history of Cleveland, the city that convicted them. In the early 1970s, three African-American men--Wiley Bridgeman, Kwame Ajamu, and Rickey Jackson--were accused and convicted of the brutal robbery and murder of a man outside of a convenience store in Cleveland, Ohio. The prosecution's case, which resulted in a combined 106 years in prison for the three men, rested on the testimony of a twelve-year-old boy from the neighborhood. Almost four decades later, the eyewitness recanted his testimony, and the convictions of Wiley, Kwame, and Rickey were overturned. But while their exoneration may have ended one of American history's most disgraceful miscarriages of justice, the corruption and decay of the city responsible for their imprisonment remain. Interweaving dramatic details of the case with his own research into Cleveland's history, award-winning journalist Kyle Swenson reveals how decades of bad policy and policing were often catastrophic for the city' most vulnerable citizens. Good Kids, Bad City is a work of astonishing empathy and insight: an immersive exploration of systemic racism in America, the struggling Midwest, and how lives lost to incarceration can be recovered."--Jacket

Table Of Contents

A spark plus a spark plus a spark -- That particular day -- Black and blue -- X-ray eyes -- We yet exist -- Mens rea -- Alhamdulillah -- The males are from the neighborhood -- What the boy saw -- Super flop -- Hypertension -- We can fix this -- 39 years, 3 months, 6 days -- Not your town anymore -- Epilogue: comeback

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