ReEntry Stories
More than 20,000 people are released from prison in Ohio every year, 1,500 in Montgomery County alone. When they return to the community, they often have trouble finding jobs, housing, education, and mental health services.
The Eichelberger Center for Community Voices at WYSO started a podcast called ReEntry Stories in 2019 to give returned citizens a chance to tell their stories.
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Latest Episodes
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Rachel McMillian at the University of Illinois partners with the Ohio Innocence Project to invite exonerees to her class to educate students about wrongful incarceration. -
Robert McLendon spent two decades in prison for a crime he didn't commit. He says the Ohio Innocence Project and 'The Columbus Dispatch' paved the way for his release.
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Hear the story of Nancy Smith, a bus driver from Ohio who was wrongfully convicted of sexually abusing children in her care. Smith served more than 15 years in prison.
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Starting in 2006, Central Ohio native Richard Horton served more than a dozen years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. -
Tara Rosnell, chair of the Ohio Innocence Project Board of Advocates, says, "Our mission is to free innocent people." In this episode, host Mary Evans interviews Rosnell.
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For this season, ReEntry Stories creator Mary Evans partnered with the Ohio Innocence Project to explore critical stories of injustice in the criminal justice system. -
To see Justice Michael Donnelly speak, RSVP to lheller2@udayton.edu by the end of the day on Sept. 10. -
Did you know what post-incarceration syndrome is? An Ohio researcher spoke with WYSO during Mental Health Awareness Month about her advocacy to have the mental illness formally recognized. -
WYSO’s Mary Evans sat down with exoneree Dean Gillispie to discuss how regional advocates helped him win his case and how he kept hope when he was wrongfully imprisoned. -
Knox came to Dayton in 2024 to speak at an event for the Ohio Innocence Project, a local nonprofit whose mission is to free every innocent person convicted of a crime they didn’t commit.
