‘I have a responsibility to speak about it’: a wrongfully imprisoned artist making art from his ordeal
by David Smith in Washington from on (#5V71Q)
Sherrill Roland was sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit. Now exonerated, he's created an exhibition using only materials available on the inside
Sherrill Roland could not touch his daughter until she was nearly a year old. He had spent 10 months in prison for a crime he did not commit.
It was the first time I finally got out again and got to choose which clothes I actually put on and the first time I got to hold her," he recalls by phone. She gave me a big smile and I was just in awe."
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