The name of the show is Dallas DNA, and it airs on the Investigation Discovery Channel.
I watch it, when I can catch it. The innocent men, especially the ones who have been in jail for a decade or more, are lost once they are exonerated. Their families, thinking them sex offenders, have disowned them; wives divorced them, grown children shunning the men even after they are released.
How much, do you think, should we pay a man whose wife died believing him to be a rapist? His children are grown and gone; the last time he was free, the first IBM PC hadn't been sold. The DA's office had to explain cell phones to him. How does he live? He went into prison at thirty, and he's sixty now; what job does he apply for? He was a mechanic, back in 1979; what garage can he work at now?
It's so very easy for us to sit out here in our freedom and our arrogance and say, "You're not guilty now ... Next case!" It's easy to look down our noses at the unjustly accused and flick them away like so much inconvenient lint, but we are, all of us, responsible for the miscarriage of justice that robbed them of their lives.
“but we are, all of us, responsible”
If you want to argue that they should be treated well, okay, but don’t try to blame me for what people I don’t know did in a different state 30 years ago.