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Wyclef Jean Talks His Arrest, Police Shootings & Criminal Justice Reform at Collision Conference

Calling for a “new age of activism,” Lava Records CEO Jason Flom joined with friend Wyclef Jean on Wednesday (May 3) at the Collision Conference in New Orleans to discuss wrongful conviction and how to change a criminal justice system he called “a disaster.”

Flom, who is on the board of directors of the Innocence Project and hosts the podcast Wrongful Conviction, noted how attitudes have changed drastically since he started working on criminal justice reform in the ’90s. Skeptics once called him “Don Quixote, jousting at that shit,” he said, but now more colleagues realize “it’s our national disgrace.”

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