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Lithuanias capital is clothed in the colors of ukraine, and putin is reminded an International Court is waiting with his arrest warrant. Since the 2022 invasion, lithuania has become a refuge for putins fiercest critics. You would be in a russian prison just for doing this interview. Oh, for sure. For sure. Its rare for 60 minutes to follow a story for 15 years. But tonight youll be reintroduced to Jennifer Thompson, a rape victim, who mistakenly identified an innocent man who was sent to prison. Im going to tie my string. Reporter jennifer has created something called healing justice, a program that brings together victims, family members, and innocent men. Dear chris, you failed in life. Why did you confess . Why cant you just be quiet. You are a angry black man. You will never know love. You will always be a prisoner. Im lesley stahl. Im bill whitaker. Im anderson cooper. Im sharyn alfonsi. Im jon wertheim. Im cecilia vega. Im scott pelley. 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Today is election day in russia, but theres no suspense. 71yearold Vladimir Putin will be named the winner, as he has been over the last 24 years. This time, as often, his challengers died. One after an explosion on a plane, and alexei navalny, putins leading rival, who died last month in an arctic prison camp. Putin has killed nearly all internal opposition to his unprovoked war in ukraine. And yet many courageous russians continue the struggle outside the country. We met some of them in a city you might think of as the capital of free russia. Its 500 miles west of moscow, the city of vilnius, in lithuania, where theres no love lost for russia. Lithuania is a democracy of about 3 Million People and a nato ally. Vilnius, the capital, is clothed in the colors of ukraine. The city changed the russian embassys address to heroes of ukraine street, and putin is reminded the International Port in the hague is waiting with his arrest warrant. Since putins 2022 invasion, lithuania has welcomed more than 2,500 russian exiles. It is our policy to provide shelter to all freedom fighters. Montas adomenas served as lithuanias Deputy Foreign minister from 2020 until last august. I havent seen so many ukrainian flags since i was in kyiv. Why do your people feel so strongly about this . Our freedom, our independence, our, sort of, security is being defended in the battlefields in ukraine. Ukraine dies so we can be saved. There are many more russian dissonants, who would love to come to lithuania. Can you accept any more . Of course we can accept. We will accommodate as many as needed and provide them with possibility to work for the freedom and democracy in russia. One of the russian exiles in lithuania working for freedom and democracy is a crusading mom. Two years ago, Anastasia Shevchenko fled putins regime. This is a terrorist regime. They are threatening other countries with oil, gas, Nuclear Weapon and grain. Theyre threatening us with our children, with our parents, with our lives and so on. More than anything, it was her daughter, alina, severely disabled at birth, that made shevchenko an activist against putin. Back then, the family was in southern russia, and alina was in a russian government nursing home. Alina could not speak, could not communicate. No. She was like a oneweek child, like a baby. She was 17, but even, you know, to feel her, it was a whole science because she needed blended food. You need to hold her in special position. Shevchenko cared for alina much of the time because the russian nursing facility was short on staff and supplies. I was struggling to get medication for my daughter, begging in the pharmacy that she needed it. It was very important for her health. They said, no, we just dont have it because the ministry forgot to order it this month. And you need to wait. I decided, im not going to keep silent, you know . Im going to stand out and to speak out. She spoke out through a russian Democracy Group called open russia. It was tolerated ten years ago, and shevchenko organized protests in her hometown. But in 2019, the kremlin cracked down. Shevchenko was arrested, and her lawyer warned her she would be shocked by what the police had already done. He showed me the screen shots of me in my bed. And i realized that they had installed the video camera into the air conditioning unit above my bed. And they have been watching me for six months in my bedroom. A Russian Court ordered shevchenko into house arrest. She couldnt visit or care for alina. It wasnt long before her daughter developed pneumonia. By the time a judge granted shevchenko a pass to the hospital, alina was unconscious. I spent maybe ten Minutes Holding her hand because thats what i do when my children are ill. When you hold their hand, they feel better. But this time, she was cold. She didnt feel me. And she died in an hour. In 2021, shevchenko was given a fouryear suspended sentence. But when putin invaded ukraine the next year, she decided to flee russia. From her southern city, she took her two surviving children on an 1,100mile drive. A u. S. Based Democracy Group arranged lithuanian visas. What does this tell us about russia today . Its enough to write something on social media. Just one sentence and you can be imprisoned for years. They are listening to your phone calls. Theyre watching you in your bedroom. Theyre controlling you. Breaking that control is why sergei davidas also left russia for lithuania in 2022. You would be in a russian prison just for doing this interview. Oh, for sure. For sure. In moscow, davidas helped lead one of russias largest human rights groups, called memorial. It won the Nobel Peace Prize two years ago. But now its banned. He told us [ speaking in a global language ] almost every day, there are more and more arrests. We hear news about new political arrests. And apart from the legal side of it, more often than before, theres violence and torture. Davidas heads memorials project to support political prisoners. He told us he has confirmed 680 imprisoned today, but he believes the actual number is multiples of that. Since 2022, russians can be sentenced to 15 years just for criticizing the war on the street or in the media. [ speaking in a global language ] one of the consequences of the war, he says, was a complete wipeout of independent mass media, a prohibition of any opinion thats not under control of the government. Independent newsrooms in russia have been forced to close. Governmentcontrolled newscasts report only the absurd lie that the war is selfdefense against nazis. This host says [ speaking in a global language ] we are on the side of good, against the forces of absolute evil embodied by the ukrainian nazi battalions. People are scared, so they feel lonely. They feel terribly lonely. Tatyana felgenhauer and Alexander Plyuschev were talk radio hosts on a prominent station. They were allowed to speak their minds until the day putin launched his war. It was my morning show. I said, its half past 6 00 in the morning. War began. War began, and within two weeks, their station was forced to close. Now, plyuschev and felgenhauer are in vilnius streaming daily into russia on youtube. Putin silenced facebook, x, and instagram, but youtube may be too popular for the kremlin to block so far. This is the only chance to talk about the war honestly because the propaganda tries to create this feeling that you are completely alone if you are against the war. Why does this mean so much to you . Really i would hate myself if im silent or pretending that everything is okay. If russian radio and tv stations are allowed only kremlin talking points, we saw a lithuanian station telling the truth, not on a channel, but on platform number 5 to a captive russian audience. Because part of russia, kaliningrad, on the left, is separate, like alaska from the lower 48, the moscowkaliningrad train must travel through lithuania. The cars are sealed for the transit. But at a stop in vilnius, russian passengers were confronted by posters of atrocities. Each read, putin is killing civilians in ukraine. Do you agree with this . Theres no way to know how much truth climbed aboard. And no one is allowed off the train in part because lithuania worries about russian agents. Putin is infamous for attempting to attack his enemies in foreign countries. And i wonder if the russian dissidents are safe here in lithuania. Of course it is a major concern for us. We spend considerabl effort in making sure dissidents are safe here and safer than they would be, in fact, in many other countries. Have there been attempts . Im afraid i cant release that information in more detail. But lets put it this way, that russia is constantly probing and constantly trying. And this past week, russia may have gotten through. Leonid volkov was attacked with a hammer outside vilnius. Volkov, on the right, was a top aide to putins late rival, alexei navalny. Volkovs arm was broken. The attacker fled. Vladimir putins reelection this week will bring him to his fifth term, which will cover the next six years. He enjoys support from nationalists who want to believe that todays russia is an exceptional nation. But putin also has weaknesses. Its estimated hes lost 300,000 troops killed and wounded. And russia has a population less than half that of the United States and an economy about the size of italys. My hope is a country where government takes care of our citizens. Anastasia shevchenko is free in vilnius, but shes wanted in russia for breaking her probation. These days shes streaming her own youtube show and sends medicine, food, and letters to political prisoners. Shes become another voice to the isolated and the lonely and those like her daughter, who will never escape the new iron curtain. She was alone, no one next to her. I really feel very guilty about it. But i wouldnt change anything in my life, i think. Why not . You know, the society in russia is based on fakes. We have fake democracy. By constitution, it is a democracy. Fake news, fake elections. And i want to be the opposite. I want to be open. I want russia to be open. How safe are russian dissidents in lithuania . People ask me, are you actually safe there. At 60minutesovertime. Com. From the 1 rated brand in cordless outdoor power, the ego zeroturn riding mower with esteer technology. Drives like a car, turns on a dime. And it cuts up to 2. 5 acres on a single charge. Exclusively lowes, ace, and ego authorized dealers. Feeling ughh from a backed up gut . Miralax works naturally with the water in your body to help you go. Free your gut. And your mood will follow. 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A chance to live longer. 15 years ago, we reported on a woman named Jennifer Thompson, a rape victim who was devastated to learn years after her assault that she and the police had identified an innocent man, who was convicted and sent to prison. While the actual rapist had gone on to attack several more women. Not an uncommon story in this era of dna exonerations. And Jennifer Thompson has tried for years to do something about it. Thompson knows firsthand that Wrongful Convictions scar not just the unjustly convicted, but also the original crime victims who are often overlooked. So, shes doing something no one else has tried and perhaps only she could pull off, bringing together crime victims and innocent men from Different Cases for what she calls healing justice. What im going to ask you to do is turn your bowl upsidedown. What we saw on day one of a multiday Group Retreat Jennifer Thompson is leading sure didnt look like healing. Ten men and women plus an observer nice job, lesley. Smashing bowls with a hammer. Nice. What im going to ask you to do now is im going to ask you to repair it. It was quite something to realize that gluing pieces back together at one table for two women who had been raped at the ages of 15 and 12 sitting across from two men who, in unrelated cases, had been wrongfully convicted of sexually assaulting children and had spent more than two decades in prison. At the next table, another woman who survived a Sexual Assault sitting beside a man exonerated for rape and murder. And our table, the partner and daughter of a murder victim. Everyone here part of a case where the wrong man was sent to prison for years and years. You have said that Wrongful Convictions arent a single bullet. You said theyre bombs. A Wrongful Conviction doesnt hurt a person. Its not just Raymond Towler got hurt. His whole family got shrapnel. And the victims got shrapnel. And the community received shrapnel because a child molester was still in the community. Theres just so many people in a Wrongful Conviction. I think its hundreds of people for every single Wrongful Conviction case that are hurt. Jennifer thompson was one of them. She was a College Student in 1984, when a man broke into her offcampus apartment and raped her at knife point. Jennifer worked with police to create a composite stretch, then identified a man named ronald cotton in the photo and physical lineups Police Showed her. Jennifer testified in court against ronald cotton and was relieved when he received a life sentence. But after 11 years in prison, dna proved cottons innocence and identified the actual rapist, whose photo had not been in the lineup. Ronald cotton was exonerated, and jennifer was wracked with guilt, that she told us in 2009. Shame . Shame. Terrible shame. Suffocating, debilitating shame. Jennifer turned that shame into action. She apologized to ronald cotton in person and then started speaking around the country to police and prosecutors, sometimes together with cotton, about how to make Wrongful Convictions less likely. But over the years, as exonerations of the innocent have multiplied finally were free. With more than 3,500 freed so far im free. Based on new evidence, including dna, jennifer began to focus in on what was being overlooked. What do you think most people feel and see when they see an innocent man come out of prison . Its the day that that man or woman, whos wrongfully incarcerated, and their families are rejoicing. I knew you didnt do it. Its the day theyve been dreaming about, theyve prayed for. Theyre on the court steps and their arms are raised high, and its a day of celebration. But for the crime victims, for the murder victim family members, theyre sitting back here saying, hey, hold up a second. This is another nightmare on top of a nightmare. The victims have been forgotten. Victims, she says, like tomeshia carrington artis, who was 12 years old when a man broke into her bedroom and raped her. He put a knife to my throat and said if i screamed he was going to kill me and my mom. Grabbed me from behind. Penny beerntsen, sexually assaulted at age 36, as she went for an afternoon run on the shore of lake michigan. He said, now im going to kill you. Now youre going to die. And loretta zilinger white, who was raped at the age of 15 on the way to school one morning, after she missed her bus. Its hard. People expect you to just put it behind you and not think about it again. And they dont realize that its going to affect you for the rest of your life. All these women, like jennifer, had identified a suspect the Police Showed them, only to learn years later that those men were innocent. And they were gripped by a whole new nightmare. I felt so bad for him because i felt like i sent this man to prison. Thats all i could think about. I got scared. I felt like he was going to try and come out and kill me. I just i shut down. Did people blame you . Oh, absolutely. The first time i went out in public, a friend came up to me and said, i cant believe youre showing your face. They were saying that i needed to go to prison. That you needed yes. That i intentionally sent the wrong man to prison. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, it was bad. Yeah. Memory experts have long understood how crime victims can get it wrong. In our earlier story about jennifers case, professor gary wells showed us a simulated crime scene and then a lineup. Now you know now, after weve talked, probably not to pick anyone. No. No. Actually i actually know who it is. If i had who is it . If i had come upon that i think its this guy. Am i wrong . Am i wrong . Yeah. Im wrong . Yeah. Its none of them. Studies have shown again and again when the actual perpetrator is not in the lineup, witnesses often pick the wrong man, who then comes to replace the original offender in their memory of the crime. In jennifers case and tomeshia and pennys, the real perpetrators revealed by dna years later had not been in the original lineups. 20 years later when they come to me and say, by the way i cant imagine. The person who raped you never went to prison and the person we thought was innocent. See ya. And oh, by the way, its all your fault. Its not the systems fault. Here was my narrative. Rape victim falsely accuses an innocent man and sends him to prison. Everythings wrong with that because a false accusation denotes a lie. What would a crime survivor, why would a victim, want the wrong person to go to prison . That doesnt make any sense at all. You know, when you hear what youre saying, then we get it. But we dont hear it. As you said, theres a blazing headline, man is freed, person who fingered him got it wrong. Thats it. And the system now doesnt get held accountable for how it failed me and it failed my family and it failed the innocent person. It failed the innocent persons family. And it failed everybody. That failure, jennifer told us, is also devastating for families of murder victims, even when they played no role themselves in identifying the wrongfully convicted person. Thats what happened to Andrea Harrison and her father, dwayne jones. Andreas mother, jacqueline, was raped and murdered in 1987, when andrea was just three years old. It was one of the most horrendous crimes. She was brutally raped, tortured. Someone found her body walking the dog. A local man named larry peterson, spent more than 17 years in prison for the crime before dna testing proved his innocence and he was released. Did you know that he was going to be released . Did they tell you . No. No. No. For many, many years, someone was tried, convicted, and put away. Yes, maam. And then you find out that the dna doesnt match. I mean, you go back into fight or flight. Yeah. You got scared. Absolutely. Absolutely we did. Can you tell us of what . Whos the person who hurt my mother . What happened to jackie . Who did it . Whoever that person is, theyre still out there. Theyre still there. But since larry petersons exoneration, with the case now cold, they feel the original crime and victim have become an afterthought. Its always been, what do you think about mr. Peterson . That is not my charge. I care about jackie. Im worried about jackie. What about jackie . Even while victims and families are left reeling, in the wake of Wrongful Convictions, jennifer knows from her friendship with ronald cotton and her work with other exonorees, that is just the start of a yearslong struggle to rebuild. Raymond towler, exonerated after 29 years in prison 29 years plays in a band with other exonerees and says he struggles with the lingering stigma and hurt of being charged with such a heinous crime. Tell us, if its not too painful, what the crime its painful. Im laughing over it but it was painful. It was rape of 11 and 12yearold kids. And dna testing finally proved towlers innocence and won his freedom, he says it was thrilling but also daunting. The adjustment was difficult. Yeah. I couldnt even really go out the door by myself. You dont feel like you fit in anywhere. At least i didnt. Exonerees stories are often filled with egregious police and prosecutorial misconduct. In chris ochoas case, abusive interrogations that led to a false confession to rape and murder. For howard dudley, evidence withheld by prosecutors that likely would have cleared him of child sexual abuse, for which he served more than 23 years. I missed my kids, see them at the football game, see them on the basketball court, didnt get a chance to see none of that. I would like everybody to introduce themselves. So jennifer came up with a novel idea. I am Jennifer Thompson. I am a victim survivor. My name is raymond, Raymond Towler. Im an exoneree. She started an Organization Called healing justice that brings together exonorees and crime victims all from Different Cases, as well as family members. My brother was an exoneree. My name is andrea. Healing justice paid to bring them from around the country to this rented Retreat Center in virginia, where they will spend three days sharing stories, playing games, and eating all their meals together. This is the 17th retreat healing justice has done. How effective is it when its not the same crime . Very effective. Theres something powerful and healing when an exoneree can hear what the victim in their case must have felt like. 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When she created the nonprofit organization, healing justice, in 2015, was to help all groups harmed by Wrongful Convictions. Healing justice now advises prosecutors offices around the country on dealing more effectively and empathetically with crime victims in eoneration cases. And theyve recently gotten a grant from the Justice Department to expand those efforts. But its what they call the healing side of their work that is most meaningful to jennifer. She did course work in Trauma Recovery and worked with psychologists to design a program to safely bring together victims of crime and exonerees. They work in small groups on the wounds left behind when the Justice System gets it wrong. Remember the breaking and gluing back together of those bowls . Did anybody notice how fast and easy it was to break it and how hard it is to put it back together again . That was just the start of this retreats opening exercise. And perhaps a metaphor for the whole endeavor. What im going to ask you to do now is to paint your broken places with gold. This is actually 24 karat gold paint. She told us its called kintsugi. Kintsugi . What is that . Its a japanese concept that even in our broken places, were still beautiful because were strong at our broken places and were not disposable. But before they can paint their real wounds with gold, they have to look hard at the breaks that need repair. I lost part of my heart. So, sitting in a circle, using a rock to give whoever holds it the floor, and with a healing Justice Social worker always present, they talked about their losses. I lost believing in myself. I had so much confidence that i had so much. That first, you know, slam of the doors, everything got real right then, you know . Ive seen people, suicide, death by cop, just getting beat up, killed. It all comes back, and i have to keep reminding myself, you know, im here right now. The hardest part for me is hearing what the exonerees went through in prison. Its so hard to hear, but its so necessary. So what i want to do today on day two of the retreat, jennifer led an exercise on how the harsh words used against each of them end up becoming internalized. You might have been called a liar. You might have been called a rapist. And those words really do take on a life of their own. Id like for you to write a letter to yourself from the space of the critical mind, that loop that plays in your head over and over again. You have them write letters . What was the purpose . Ive done this before. When theyre writing it, theyre not happy. And then i have them read it out loud at circle. They didnt like it. Dear chris, you failed in life. Why did you confess . I would never have confessed. Why cant you just be quiet . Dear raymond. You are a angry black man. You will never know love. You will always be a prisoner. And then there was lorettas. Dear loretta. You deserved to be raped and beaten. You really dont deserve to be alive. You arent brave nor strong. You are a failure as a woman and a mother. Loretta, jennifer told us, faces one of the most excruciating situations for a victim in an exoneration case. When the dna clears one man but doesnt identify who the actual assailant was. Im stuck. She told us she relives the assault daily and cant get the exonerated mans face out of her memory. So, even though he was cleared through dna, his face is still there. Yes. The dna said it wasnt him. You didnt believe it. No. I feel guilty because i feel like i did something wrong. So youre having both the feeling that he was the one and that you did something wrong. Yes. Oh, my god. You really are stuck. I dont know who did this. For Andrea Harrison, whose mothers killer also remains unknown, its a familiar struggle. What was told to me was that he was the person who murdered my mother. So, that was a belief of mine for a lot of years. I cant get that out of my head. On his side of it . I mean, thats sad. It is sad. The Justice System failed them just like it did us. Until now, andrea and her father had not been willing to attend a retreat with exonerees present. Do you think that the exonerated person and the victim are almost pitted against each other when they shouldnt be . Theyre both victims of the same perpetrator. Who knows someone sitting in jail for what he or she did. Thats right. At the end of the day, when an innocent person is in prison, a guilty person is not. We should all be concerned about that. Maybe they go off and do it many more times. In my case, the person who wasnt caught committed six more first degree rapes before he was ever apprehended. I just love that were here working on this. In the circle, after reading the critical letters, jennifer turned the tables. I want you to write a second letter now to yourself from the selfcompassion voice, the voice that you would use for the person you love the most. So, they rewrote it. They did. Oh, yeah. And then they read that out loud. And their faces, they smiled when they read it. Dear raymond, you have a kind heart. You are loved. Raymond, your dreams have come true, and you are free to dream more and create. You are a great mother, grandmother, wife, daughter, sister, friend, and so on and on. Keep going. You got this. Ive seen you stumble, and ive seen you bounce right back. Dear loretta, you know that its never too late to follow your dreams. You should never stop believing in yourself. You didnt deserve to be hurt by anyone or anything. I will always be your biggest fan and supporter. I love you. That was different. So, why is it that we speak to ourselves in a way that we would never speak to the people that we love . Something that i need to change, you know, is that it was actually harder to write the happy letter for me. I do believe the good things about myself, but i dont think i really say them to myself enough. And the reality is, if we really want to do good in the world, hating ourselves serves nobody at all. Whos ready . After two emotionfilled days came a scene we werent expecting. Catch it. The group gathered together for improv games. Ribbit, ribbit. Acting like animals. Smiling and laughing. You play a lot of games. The games are just really a way of inviting that child to come back and play again. If you feel safe, you can pretend like youre a monkey. You can do all kinds of ridiculous things. And its okay because everyone else is doing it too. We noticed a loosening and connecting. Later that night, over an art project, the kind of impromptu conversation jennifer says this retreat is all about. How can somebody look at me and think that i would do something so heinous like that . Thats part of the trauma for me. When you hear some of our stories, do you ever, like, blame us . Like, me, being an exoneree . Yeah . Do you ever see yourself blaming the victims for you didnt do anything wrong. Its not your fault. The next morning, as they gathered in the circle for the third and final day i feel blessed. I feel light as a feather. Her mood had shifted dramatically. I feel open. I feel courageous. I feel nurtured. Even though its painful to let it out, i think you guys do it because you know its going to help the next person. And it has. So, how did the retreat go . Very enlightening. Very powerful. We took off the mask that everybody sees. What questions did you ask each other, exonerees to crime victims and back around . I asked, what happened to you . And everyone was honest. And everybody was honest. I asked, right away, i shook mr. Howards hand. And i feel for this man. And my other two friends back there that are exonerees. I see it now because we only looked from our side of the table. Weve never seen it from their side. I had that fear, even when i came here. I didnt know if ill be coming into hate because i was an exoneree because, you know, nobody believed me for, you know, 30 years. I think we believe it. Thank you. We do. I had questions myself for an exoneree. And i was able to build up the courage to even ask raymond because i still hold this guilt. And i was finally able to let it go after talking to him. I knew he was speaking from his heart. And it took 30 years for him to let me get that guilt off of me. Wow. I thank you. Do you have any guilt for what happened to ronald . No, not anymore. I feel so sad that for 11 years he was in prison for something he didnt do. But im also really sad that i got raped at knife point and chased around our neighborhood in the dark while i didnt have any clothes on. I feel a deep amount of sadness for these cases and for everybody whos impacted by them. May you keep spreading your love to everyone that needs it. So, as the retreat drew to a close, they clasped hands and shared wishes for one another. May you continue on your journey of healing. What happened in your case that allowed you to heal . I think ill always be healing. But i think what has helped me more than anything is the relationships i built along the way with people that have been harmed and hurt just like me. Because youre helping other people. Jennifer, may you always be in our lives. May you always be courageous. Thank you. Im helping other people, but what they dont realize is theyre also helping me. I didnt know that move. Theyre healing. They are healing. And i want to walk with them on that journey. Welcome to cbs sports hq presented by progressive insurance. Im adam zucker in new york with the top seeds in the ncaa basketball tournament. Uconn is the overall number one seed. And purdue is in the west. While North Carolina leads the way in the west. 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