Art Series Captures Taste And Color Of Prisoners' First Meal After Exoneration
Artist Julie Green, who also depicts the final meals of death row inmates, is now painting first meals of exonerees. The food is celebratory, but nothing compared to all those lost years, she says.
A cookie may have led to Kristine Bunch's release from prison — and sparked a series of paintings inspired by wrongful convictions.
In 1996, Bunch was found guilty in Indiana for the arson-murder of her 3-year old son. She proclaimed her innocence for the next 16 years behind bars, until she was finally exonerated in 2012. She was 22 years old and six months pregnant with her second son when she first entered prison.
Several years later, Bunch saved cookies for a pregnant fellow inmate, a small kindness that unexpectedly helped her find a lawyer to take her case. "I knew what it was like to be pregnant in prison," recalls
