All of them spent years behind bars for crimes they didn’t commit.
The stories of four of the most high-profile exonerated prisoners in history will be documented in Fallout, which airs on RTÉ One on Thursday night.
The documentary will examine the post-prison lives of four famously exonerated prisoners – Paddy Hill of the Birmingham Six, Peter Pringle, the last man sentenced to death in Ireland in 1980, his wife, Sonia ‘Sunny’ Jacobs, who served 17 years on death row in the US and Robert Brown, who served 25 years in prison in the UK.
Fallout will explore the mental and physical effects that spending so much of their lives behind bars had on all four subjects and how it has affected their family relationships and day-to-day existence since their release.
It also highlights their engagement in activism and advocacy for criminal justice reform and human rights and how they’re providing assistance to fellow victims of injustice through endeavours such as the Sunny Center Foundation (run by Sunny Jacobs and Peter Pringle) and Paddy Hill’s Miscarriages of Justice Organisation (MOJO).
Fallout airs on RTÉ One on Thursday, September 21 at 10.15pm.
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