Leon Benson News Today

Strong opinions abound when it comes to Indiana's longest-serving female prisoner, an abused 18-year-old who was given six life sentences in 1975.

"That's the closest to death on this side of life, when you sit there and nobody believes you," said Leon Benson.

A recent rise in exonerations is a clear example that our criminal justice system is failing.

True crime, amazing interviews, revisiting history and never-before heard pop-culture gossip. Here are nine podcasts I'm enjoying right now.

Now home in Detroit, Benson reflects on his exoneration as he releases his debut EP 'Innocent Born Guilty'

Three Hancock County community corrections officers are now facing a federal lawsuit accusing them of racial discrimination.

An Indianapolis man has been released after spending 25 years in prison following an overturned murder conviction. Leon Benson, 47, was released from the

A man convicted of a murder in 1998 has become the first person to be exonerated by the Marion County Prosecutor's Office Conviction Integrity Unit.

Shakespeare in the shu was born. >> and theyre going against banroll. >> still did not answer the question about the third murder. >> i guess you can look at him as being like -- >> the program has inmates rewrite shakespeare in a way that reflects their own experiences. during our shoot the group was working on macbeth, a play about ambition, assassination, and a warlords lust for power. >> i took macbeth to the streets and what he did, he went, to the hood, to the housing projects, you know, g...

Coming and thats how shakespeare in the shu was born. >> and theyre going against bankroll. >> still did not answer the question about the third murder. >> i guess you can look at him as being like -- >> the program has inmates rewrite shakespeare in a way that reflects their own experiences. during our shoot the group was working on macbeth, a play about ambition, assassination, and a warlords lust for power. >> i took macbeth to the streets and what he did, he went, to the hood, to the housing...