Though the film focuses on the story of an innocent man, it doesn't forget the ways our society fails those who do cause harm, especially children.
was released on Friday in theaters across the country, catapulting the work and life of heroic civil rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson onto the big screen and into the mainstream American consciousness. Stevenson is best known for founding the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama—now home to the National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum—and his tireless work representing those sentenced to death over the past few decades, primarily in the Deep South.
, he's portrayed in his cell awaiting his execution, suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Like so many veterans, Richardson was never offered the medical and emotional support he so desperately needed upon returning home. And once he was accused of a crime, none of that seemed to matter anymore.
In Richardson's case, that was the death penalty, and in the case of the population we serve, it was life in prison without parole, a sentence our country alone in the world imposes on children.
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