Half of exonerees — a number which encompasses the 139 people freed from death row since the 1970s and the 29 freed from Louisiana prisons since 1990 — are living with family members, and two of three aren't financially independent, according to statistics from Resurrection After Exoneration, a New Orleans-based organization founded by John Thompson, cleared of his death-sentence conviction after 18 years at Angola.


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