Derrick Hamilton never went to law school, but prisoners across New York State have heard about his formidable legal skills, which he acquired while he was wrongly imprisoned for murder for more than two decades, reading law books and fighting to get himself and other inmates set free. I recently wrote about Hamilton, who was released in 2011, for the magazine; he works as a paralegal in New York City and continues t…
SOURCE: The New Yorker at 07:05PM on July 10, 2016