How one legal clinic’s giving prisoners a second life

Ramesh was accused of murdering his wife and four young daughters. After cops claimed he “confessed”, a lower court sentenced him to death. Twelve years later — years spent by Ramesh inside a prison cell — the Supreme Court acquitted him, calling the purported confession “suspicious” and uncorroborated.
For Ramesh, a poor, uneducated labourer from Uttar Pradesh, the real punishment was the process. He was moved from one hearing to another without him ever seeing the inside of a courtroom. And he neither knew the lawyer assigned to defend him, nor did he have the foggiest about who testified, or what they said.