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Lamar Johnson, 49, said he was “elated” to walk free this week after a lengthy legal process. He likely won’t be compensated.

Hundreds of people facing long prison sentences are being spirited out of the country by groups that arrange daring escapes, with one trip using six different cars over more than 4,000 miles.

Six months after the arrest of a college student caused an uproar in the Newton community and spurred furious online discussions, the police department is now being sued.

The Shelby County District Attorney’s Office will review cases involving the five officers charged in the death of Tyre Nichols and could look back at hundreds of others involving its now-disbanded Scorpion unit.

In a coda to the wrongful-conviction podcast “Bone Valley,” Judge Scott Cupp says he’ll step down to spring a man serving a life sentence for murder.

The judge overturned the convictions of Ian Schweitzer, who had spent 23 years in prison after he was found guilty of kidnapping, sexually assaulting and murdering Dana Ireland.

Joseph Franco is charged with six counts of perjury after what authorities said were the wrongful arrests of five people. His involvement torpedoed hundreds of prosecutions in New York.

The three former Guantánamo prisoners who defeated George W. Bush at the Supreme Court in landmark cases are ensconced in family life. We caught up with two of them. One is a home-heating serviceman in central England; the other is an Uber driver in the French Riviera.

The university said that Mr. Syed, who spent more than two decades in prison, will work with its Prisons and Justice Initiative to help wrongfully convicted people.

Darrell Lee Clark and Cain Joshua Storey credited the podcast Proof with helping to uncover evidence of police misconduct that led to their release from prison after more than two decades.