The Central Park Five

Sarah Burns 2011

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
wrongful conviction race coercion New York

Our Take

Burns reconstructs the case of five teenagers coerced into confessing to a crime they did not commit. The book is an indictment of the NYPD, the media, and the public. Justice took twenty-five years. Some damage cannot be repaired.

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