Jeffrey Deskovic, a man who’s wrongfully convicted for 16 years.
Jeffrey is an American man from upstate New York known for having been wrongly convicted in 1990 at the age of seventeen of raping, beating, and strangling Angela Correa, a 15-year-old high school classmate at Peekskill High School. Authorities knew his DNA did not match that of the actual perpetrator – who, three years later, went on to murder another young woman and mother of two – but colluded to convict Jeffrey and keep him in prison for 16 years. After he was exonerated and release, Jeffrey successfully sued the authorities responsible and used a substantial portion of the compensation he was awarded to start The Deskovic Foundation.
The Deskovic Foundation by Jeffrey Deskovic.
After being exonerated, Jeffrey used the portion of the compensation he was awarded to start his own non-profit organization dedicated to the exoneration of the wrongfully accused, their recovery, and reform of the system that allows these miscarriages of justice to take place. Jeffrey has dedicated himself to helping the wrongfully accused, and recently graduated from the Elizabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University with a law degree. The Foundation has freed seven people, and currently has eleven active cases in addition to proving peripheral assistance in other cases.
Jeffrey shared about:
- His life in prison for after being wrongfully imprisoned for a crime that he did not commit
- How he stayed positive and not losing hope inside the prison
- His life after being exonerated and starting his own foundation that helps those wrongfully imprisoned