This is the first volume in the Voice of Witness series, which will "allow those most affected by social injustice to speak for themselves" by providing oral histories to "illustrate human rights crises through the voice of its victms." Surviving Justice presents the cases of thirtreen men and women who were unjustly incarcerated for crimes they did not commit and who managed through a combination of lengthly struggle, outside legal assistance and/or sheer luck to prove their innocence and finally be realeased from prison -- usually after ten years or more served.