The Price of a Life: What’s the right way to compensate someone for decades of lost freedom?

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Click Here to Read: The Price of a Life: What’s the right way to compensate someone for decades of lost freedom? By Ariel Levy in the New Yorker in the April 13, 2016 issue.

In 1985, police on Long Island arrested John Restivo in connection with a rape and murder. He remembers a detective telling him, “This is un-America: you have no rights here.”Photograph by Christaan Felber