The Story

A professor exhanges hundreds of letters with "The Unabomber."

Jason Puracal was a real estate agent working in Nicaragua when he was wrongfully convicted of drug trafficking, money laundering, and organized crime.  He was sentenced to 22 years in prison and taken to one of the worst prisons in the country, La Modelo.  His sister Janis, a lawyer in Seattle, led the charge for his release which eventually occurred 2 ½ years later.

Each year Huy Dao receives thousands of letters from prisoners across the country hoping to be freed. Huy is the intake coordinator for The Innocence Project. It is his job to decide which cases the organization will take on and who has enough evidence to prove that they were wrongfully convicted. 

Two stories of men who have their hopes and dreams built on the future of the auto industry in the South. Barry Emison is a tool and die teacher at a community college near Blue Springs, Mississippi. Chris Frost found a job with a supplier for the Georgia Kia auto plant, where he says a cultural divide between the Korean managers and the American workers made it a tough work environment. Also in this episode, Tracy Vasquez has been running a small custom cookie business out of her home for years.