Yusef Salaam talks about his life after exoneration, healing, and racism in the criminal justice system

Summary: In 1989, Yusef Salaam, Korey Wise, Antron McCay, Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, were teenagers when they were arrested in connection with the attack of Trisha Meili, a 28-year-old jogger was brutally assaulted and raped in New York’s Central Park. They became widely known as the Central Park Five. In 2002, after the Central Park Five spent between seven and 13 years of their lives behind bars, the convictions of the five men were overturned after the real rapist came forward […]