John Bunn (exonerated prisoner)

John Bunn (born 1976) is an African American man wrongfully convicted of a murder committed in 1991, when he was 14. Bunn spent over 16 years in prison and nearly 12 on parole before he was exonerated in 2018.[1] After his release, Bunn founded a nonprofit that aims to educate incarcerated youth and provide access to books to promote literacy.[2]

  1. ^ King, Alexandra (9 September 2018). "He spent 27 years wrongly convicted of murder. He wants to spend the rest encouraging inmates to read". CNN. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
  2. ^ "What We Do". A Voice 4 the Unheard. Retrieved 11 June 2020.