Karen Brown

Journalist

“Wrongfully Convicted (for 27 years). Then Things Get Really Unfair.”

In fall of 2013, Mark Schand walked out of court in Springfield, Massachusetts, a free man – after 27 years in prison for a murder he says he did not commit. Two years later, Schand is still getting his bearings. 

He’s living with the wife who stood by him — and is trying to find a way forward with little help from the system that locked him up. New England Public Radio’s Karen Brown reports.

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Shorter version aired on NPR’s Weekend Edition.

Mark and Mia Schand.