From dentures to job training, ex-prisoners get help to thrive

The defining years of Richard Miles’ life weren’t the 15 he spent wrongfully incarcerated for murder. They haven’t been the 11 years since his exoneration, either. What has defined his lifework has been the 30 months between the two.

It’s that period, when he was just another guy who had served time struggling to rebuild his life, that inspired him to help found Miles of Freedom. He could have focused his efforts on other wrongful convictions, as other exonerees have done. His home state of Texas, after all, has more exonerations than almost any other. But while he knows better than anyone the deep injustice of a wrongful conviction, he also knows better than most the broad injustice felt by the thousands of people who are released from America’s prisons each day.

“We started Miles of Freedom not because I was innocent, but because I was in prison,” he says…

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