Welcome to a brand new mini-series, wrongful conviction with Jason Flom in the time of COVID.

You know, we're moving into our second month since this was declared a pandemic and many

of us have been isolating for just as long or even longer.

Being away from our loved ones is painful.

Let's be honest, being without physical touch just plain sucks and there's only so much

that video conferencing can do to fill that void.

So my team and I have been reaching out to the experts are wrongfully convicted community

for advice on how to cope with the dark side of isolation.

Last week we spoke with Damien Eccles of the West Memphis 3 and if you haven't had a chance

I strongly recommend listening to his advice about focusing on the things that you do have

control over, like scheduling, self-improvement, exercise, art, literature and most importantly,

moving on to your sensitive humor through the darkness.

This week we'll talk to a woman who is at the center of an international scandal when

she was demonized in the media all while trying to navigate a legal system in a language

that was foreign to her.

Eventually, she was sentenced to 26 years in an Italian prison for a crime she simply

didn't commit.

She'll tell us about how she's holding up now.

Her concerns for all those isolating alone as well as the currently incarcerated and what

she did to make the best use of her time and to combat the absence of physical touch

while she was in prison.

And you can hear her entire story of triumph over tragedy in the first episode of her second

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