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After Four Years of Confinement, Wrongfully Convicted Man is Free

In all, 22-year-old Maligie Conteh, who immigrated to the United States from Sierra Leone at age 3, spent more than four years in prison: 17 months after a wrongful conviction of a $150-dollar robbery, and the remainder at an immigration detention facility in Porstmouth, Va., where he awaited deportation to Sierra Leone due to the conviction. Continue reading