The Central Park Five (2012)

The Central Park Five 2012 In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem were arrested and later convicted of raping a white woman in New York Citys Central Park They spent between 6 and 13 years in prison before a serial rapist confessed that he alone had committed the crime, leading to their convictions being overturned Set against a backdrop of a decaying city beset by violence and racial tension, THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE tells the story of that horrific crime, the rush to judgment by the police, a media clamoring for sensational stories and an outraged public, and the five lives upended by this miscarriage of justice