For Wrongful Convictions, Tennessee Slowly Builds a Pathway Out of Prison

For Wrongful Convictions, Tennessee Slowly Builds a Pathway Out of Prison

In November 2007, 24-year-old Adam Braseel was convicted of multiple charges including first-degree murder, and sentenced to life with the possibility of parole. In Tennessee, this possibility isn’t what it sounds like—no one convicted of first-degree murder is eligible for parole until after they’ve spent 51 years in prison. For about five years, Braseel and I were housed a few cells apart at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution. When I first…