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Podcast: Indy Audio
Episode: The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI // 7 June '22
Description: On this week's Indy News Hour:
—Prakash Churaman joins us with his lawyer Jose Nieves:
When Churaman was 15 he was was snatched from his home by the NYPD and bullied into making a false murder confession. He would spend 4 years on Rikers awaiting a trial while his peers went to high school and looked to begin building their adult lives. Churaman was convicted and then saw the conviction overturned on appeal but was forced to live under virtual house arrest with an ankle monitor that tracked his every move. The Queens DA’s office was planning to retry Prakash in the...