From award-winning investigative journalist Kyle Swenson, Good Kids, Bad City is the true Story of the longest Wrongful imprisonment in the United States to end in exoneration, and a critical social and political hiStory of Cleveland, the city that convicted them.
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A graduate of Kenyon College, he lives in Washington, D.
His work has appeared in The Village Voice, The New Republic, and Longreads.
A finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists, he is also the recipient of the Society of Professional Journalists\' Sigma Delta Chi Award for Feature Reporting.
About the Author: KYLE Swenson is a reporter for The Washington Post.
Good Kids, Bad City is a work of astonishing empathy and insight: an immersive exploration of Race in America, the struggling Midwest, and how lost lives can be recovered.
Interweaving the dramatic details of the case with Cleveland\'s history--one that, to this day, is fraught with systemic discrimination and racial tension--Swenson reveals how this outrage occurred and why.
But while their exoneration may have ended one of American history\'s most disgraceful miscarriages of justice, the corruption and decay of the city responsible for their imprisonment remain on trial.
Almost four decades later, Vernon recanted his testimony, and Wiley, Kwame, and Rickey were released.
The actual murderer was never found.
The prosecution\'s case, which resulted in a combined 106 years in prison for the three men, rested on the more-than-questionable testimony of a pre-teen, Ed Vernon.
In the early 1970s, three African-American men--Wiley Bridgeman, Kwame Ajamu, and Rickey Jackson--were accused and convicted of the brutal robbery and murder of a man outside of a convenience store in Cleveland, Ohio.
From award-winning investigative journalist Kyle Swenson, Good Kids, Bad City is the true Story of the longest Wrongful imprisonment in the United States to end in exoneration, and a critical social and political hiStory of Cleveland, the city that convicted them
