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Yusef Salaam: How to reform the US criminal justice system

Yusef Salaam: How to reform the US criminal justice system

The Interview vor 5 Jahren

Poet and activist Yusef Salaam on the chance of real change in the US justice system

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Yusef Salaam was just 16 when he and four other black and Latino
teenagers were wrongly convicted of the rape and assault of a
woman jogging in New York’s Central Park. Even before their trial
the then property tycoon Donald Trump took out newspaper ads
calling for the death penalty. The five served out their
sentences before being exonerated when another man admitted to
the crime. Yusef Salaam says their case is the story of the
criminal system of injustice in America. But as anti-racism
protests continue, and fears of worse unrest to come, is the
chance of real change even more remote than in the America of his
youth?