Yusef Salaam
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Yusef Salaam (b. around 1974) is a New Yorker who was convicted in the Central Park jogger case. His 1990 conviction for first-degree rape and robbery was vacated on December 19, 2002. He had served 6.5 years of a 5-10 year sentence and had already been released at that time.
Today, Salaam is a poet who publicly performs his poetry at events organized by the Campaign to End the Death Penalty and similar organizations. He and his mother both speak out against the death penalty and other components of the criminal justice system.
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