The Central Park Five

Ken Burns’ newest documentary, which will hopefully be automatically purchased by many Civil War and baseball enthusiasts, attempts to explain the insufficiently infamous miscarriage of justice that saw five young black men sent to prison for raping and savagely beating the Central Park Jogger.

Spoiler: They did not do it*, had their convictions vacated in 2002, and should probably receive a great deal of pointless money.

*Ray Kelly disagrees, you can draw your own conclusions.

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